Empirical Asset Pricing: The Cross Section Of Stock Returns

Written by two experts in the field (including a renowned Nobel Prize Laureate), this book represents an up-to-date compilation of empirical asset pricing theory and their techniques and application—keeping emphasis throughout on empirical research and findings. Covering topics such as the mean-variance portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing model, and the arbitrage pricing theory, this is an ideal text for courses on asset pricing as well as on portfolio/risk management/finance, stocks and bonds, and arbitrage

Turan G. Bali, PhD, is the Robert Parker Chair Professor of Finance in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. The recipient of the 2014 Jack Treynor prize, he is the coauthor of Mathematical Methods for Finance: Tools for Asset and Risk Management, also published by Wiley.

Robert F. Engle, PhD, is the Michael Armellino Professor of Finance in the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Director of the New York University Stern Volatility Institute, and co-founding President of the Society for Financial Econometrics.

Scott Murray, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He is the recipient of the 2014 Jack Treynor prize.?