References
Please refer to the following articles:
- Carhart, Mark M., 1997, On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance, Journal of Finance 52, 57-82.
- Fama, Eugene and Kenneth R. French, 1993, Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds, Journal of Financial Economics 33, 3056.
- Fama, Eugene and Kenneth R. French, 1992, The cross-section of expected stock returns, Journal of Finance 47, 427-465.
- String manipulation: http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/basics/string-manipulation-in-python
Appendix A – data case #3 - beta estimation
Objective: hands-on experience to estimate the market risk for a given set of companies:
- What are alpha and beta for those companies?
- Comment on your results.
- Based on your monthly returns, what are the means of annual returns for S&P500 and risk-free rate?
- If the expected market return is 12.5% per year and the expected risk-free rate is 0.25% per year, what are the costs of equity for those companies?
- What is the portfolio beta?
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