Financial Economics Project The accompanying excel file contains data on the monthly returns of Mobil
Financial Economics Project
The accompanying excel file contains data on the monthly returns of Mobil Oil (MOBIL), the market portfolio (MARKET), and the return on the risk free asset, 30 day U.S. Treasury bills (RKFREE) for the 10 -year period January 1978 to December 1987,120 observations. (Note: you can multiply the numbers by 100 to get a monthly returns in percentages or by 1200 to get an approximate annual percentage returns).
Using this data estimate Mobil Oil's beta (as defined in the Capital Asset Pricing Model, see references below). Describe the form of the economic/finance model to be used in the estimation and the hypothesis to be tested. Perform the appropriate set of tests and discuss the results. What do you conclude about the stock of Mobil Oil?
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