This textbook is intended to fill a gap in undergraduate finance curriculums by providing an asset pricing text that is accessible for undergraduate finance students. These statistical materials are crucial to learning asset pricing, which often applies statistical tests to evaluate different asset pricing models.
Chapter 1: Portfolio Theory and Practice.- Chapter 2: Capital Market Conditions.- Chapter 3: Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).- Chapter 4: The Market Model.- Chapter 5: The Zero-Beta CAPM.- Chapter 6: Alternative CAPM Specifications.- Chapter 7: Arbitrage Pricing Theory.- Chapter 8: Multifactor Models.- Chapter 9: A Special Case of Zero-Beta CAPM.- Chapter 10: Event Studies.