 HOW RISKY ARE SIF'S SECURITIES?Annals of Faculty of Economics, 2014, vol. 1, issue 1, 845-850 Abstract: The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) lies at the heart of models in financial economics and it has a long history of theoretical and empirical investigations. The beta (ß) of the stock is a measure of how much specific risk remains in the stock after all possible risks are diversified. The specific risk of an individual stock is the slope coefficient of the regression between the return for the individual security and the return for the market index. The main aim of the paper is to measure the systematic risk for a given number of stocks from the Romanian capital market in order to determine if these stocks are riskier than the market itself. The focus is on market risk and not on the company-specific risk and the hypotheses tested states that "stock market prices are mainly set based on the trading activity of the investors". Using data for the period 2001-2014, the results suggest that all SIF's were bearing a higher risk than the market itself, with an increasing level for the sub-period 2008-2014 (post crisis). Since SIF's are earning a high return too, these results are consistent with risk-return trade-off. The results remain robust even when was used monthly return instead of daily return. Keywords: CAPM; beta; stock; risk; return (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ora:journl:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:845-850 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Annals of Faculty of Economics from University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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