The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the imprecision of probabilities and background risk can motivate the purchase of insurance by a risk-neutral profit-maximising agent. Without insurance, the return from a profitable project may not be known with sufficient precision to justify the...

Data snooping and the nature of the distress premium are unresolved issues for the Fama and French three-factor model. These are addressed using UK data to create and test the model on portfolios based on market anomalies. We explore the apparent distress premium identified in prior research...

Empirical tests of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) have shown that movements in a single factor market index poorly explain returns on individual securities. Assuming that a possible reason is the existence of pricing anomalies, more recent research has extended the model by adding new...