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Uncertain inflation, systematic risk, and the capital asset pricing model


Abstract: The Sharpe-Linter two parameter Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) has been the basis for an extraordinary amount of theoretical and empirical work. As originally developed, the CAPM did not explicitly account for the effects of uncertain inflation on asset prices.

Keywords: Inflation (Finance); Risk; Equilibrium (Economics);

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Part of Series: Working Paper

Publication Date: 1978

Number: 78-02