Style investing and the ICAPM

Empirical multifactor models of excess returns are theoretically grounded in Merton’sICAPM. Merton modeled investors who maximize expected utility of their own consumption. Multiplepriced factors arise as “hedge portfolios” most closely correlated with state variables that driveintertemporal changes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael Stutzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIMS Press 2018-08-01
Series:Quantitative Finance and Economics
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Online Access:http://www.aimspress.com/article/10.3934/QFE.2018.3.702/fulltext.html