Capm and Market Efficiency: Limitations and Degrees, Slides of Fundamentals of E-Commerce

The limitations of the capital asset pricing model (capm) and the concept of market efficiency. Issues with estimating future market returns, determining the risk-free rate, and calculating beta. Additionally, it explains the three degrees of market efficiency: weak, semi-strong, and strong form.

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CAPM Drawbacks
Estimating expected future market returns on
historic returns.
Determining an appropriate rf
Determining the best estimate of β
Investors don’t totally ignore unsystematic risk
Betas are frequently unstable over time
Required returns are determined by
macroeconomic factors
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CAPM Drawbacks^ •^ Estimating expected future market returns onhistoric returns.^ •^ Determining an appropriate

rf

•^ Determining the best estimate of

β

•^ Investors don’t totally ignore unsystematic risk •^ Betas are frequently unstable over time •^ Required returns are determined bymacroeconomic factors

Market Efficiency •^ Capital markets are efficient if prices adjust fullyand instantaneously to new information affectinga security’s prospective return.

Weak Form Market Efficiency •^ Security prices capture all of the informationcontained in the record of past prices andvolumes •^ Implication:

No investor can earn excess returns using historical price or volumeinformation.

Technical analysis should have no marginal value.

Semi-Strong Form Market Efficiency •^ Security prices capture all of the informationcontained in the public domain. •^ Implication:

No investor can earn excess returns using publicly available information.Fundamental analysis should have no marginalvalue.