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The Capital Asset Pricing Model: theory and evidence

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The Capital Asset Pricing model (CAPM) of William Sharpe (1964) and John Lintner (1965) marks the birth of asset pricing theory. The attraction of the CAPM is that it offers powerful and intuitively pleasing predictions about how to measure risk and the relation between expected return and risk.

Author: Fama, Eugene F., French, Kenneth R.
Publisher: American Economic Association
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0895-3309
Year: 2004
Risk assessment

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The Capital Asset Pricing Model

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The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CPAM) discusses its applications and enduring importance to the field of finance. The CPAM is a fundamental contribution to the understanding of the determinants of asset prices.

Author: Perold, Andre F.
Publisher: American Economic Association
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0895-3309
Year: 2004

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The goals and promise of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

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The effect of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on investor relations, accounting and audit mechanisms of American business enterprises is discussed.

Author: Coates, John C., IV
Publisher: American Economic Association
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0895-3309
Year: 2007
Financial management, International economic relations, Economic aspects, Business enterprises, Investor relations, Trade policy, Statutes

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Subjects list: United States, Analysis, Capital assets, Valuation, Capital assets pricing model, Capital asset pricing model
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