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Python for Finance

Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is probably the most widely used model in assets pricing. There are several reasons behind its popularity. First, it is quite simple. It is just a one-factor linear model. Second, it is quite easy to implement this one-factor model. Any interested reader could download historical price data for a listed company and a market index data to calculate their return, and then estimate the market risk for the stock. Third, this simplest one-factor asset pricing model could be served as the first model for other more advanced ones, such as Fama-French 3-factor, Fama-French-Carhart 4-factor models, and Fama-French 5 factor models, which will be introduced in the next chapter.
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