Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 13, Problem 21P
In Problem 20, assume the risk-free rate is 3% and the market risk premium is 7%.
- a. What does the
CAPM predict the expected return for each stock should be? - b. Clearly, the CAPM predictions are not equal to the actual expected returns, so the CAPM does not hold. You decide to investigate this further. To see what kind of mistakes the CAPM is making, you decide to regress the actual expected return onto the expected return predicted by the CAPM.49 What is the intercept and slope coefficient of this regression? 49The Excel function SLOPE will produce the desired answers.
- c. What are the residuals of the regression in (b)? That is, for each stock compute the difference between the actual expected return and the best fitting line given by the intercept and slope coefficient in (b).
- d. What is the sign of the correlation between the residuals you calculated in (b) and market capitalization?
- e. What can you conclude from your answers to part b of the previous problem and part d of this problem about the relation between firm size (market capitalization) and returns? (The results do not depend on the particular numbers in this problem. You are welcome to verify this for yourself by redoing the problems with another value for the market risk premium, and by picking the stock betas and market capitalizations randomly.50)
50 The Excel command RAND will produce a random number between 0 and 1.
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The most relevant figure is (a) that reflects the risk-return characteristics of stock A and stock B. an effective frontier is called relationship between risk (standard deviation) and expected return. The shape of risk-return features is curved because for each incremental risk incurred there are raising marginal returns. Therefore, for each unit of risk, the standard deviation applied to the portfolio provides an extremely low amount of return. Also we can see that the SD of stock B is higher than that of A.
Figure b) is incorrect because the returns don’t rise in proportion to the risk assumed.
Figure c) is incorrect since both stocks stock A and stock B are risky, and thus a finite return cannot occur at standard deviation = 0
Answer 2
Answer - Graph B
Correlation = Covariance / (Standard deviation of A x Standard deviation of B)
Correlation = 0.0014 / (0.032 x 0.044)…
Based on the CAPM model, a stock with a negative beta has which of the following characteristics?
A. An expected return less than zero.
B. An expected return equal to the risk-free rate.
C. Since these are so rare, the CAPM model does not account for negative beta stocks.
D. An expected return less than the risk-free rate.
Assume that the risk-free rate remains constant, but the market risk premium declines. Which of the following is most likely to occur?
a. The required return on a stock with beta = 1.0 will not change.
b. The required return on a stock with beta > 1.0 will increase.
c. The return on "the market" will increase.
d. The return on "the market" will remain constant.
e. The required return on a stock with a positive beta < 1.0 will decline.
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Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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