We use Australian data to test the Conditional Capital Asset Pricing Model (Jagannathan and Wang, 1996). Our results are generally supportive: the model performs well compared with a number of competing asset pricing models. In contrast to the study by Jagannathan and Wang, however, we find that...

We analysed daily returns of the CRSP value weighted and equally weighted indices over 1953-2007 in order to test for Merton's theorised relationship between risk and return. Like some previous studies we used a GARCH stochastic volatility approach, employing not only traditional discrete time...

This paper proposes two related approximation schemes, based on a discrete grid on a finite time interval [0,T], and having a finite number of states, for a pure jump Lévy process Lt. The sequences of discrete processes converge to the original process, as the time interval becomes finer and...