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Market Risk and Returns: Evidence from the Nigerian Capital Market
Ifuero Osad Osamwonyi and Esther Ikavbo Asein
Corresponding Author: Ifuero Osad Osamwonyi
Submitted: June 09, 2012
Accepted: July 04, 2012
Published: September 25, 2012 |
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The relationship between markets returns proxied by ‘betas’ and security returns is well established in the
relevant extant literature. The objective of this paper is to provide evidence that this relationship holds in the
Nigerian Capital Market. The study specifically examines market risk as defined in the Capital Asset Pricing Model
(CAPM) as an explanatory variable for security returns in the Nigerian Capital Market. The model was tested with
quarterly data for the period 2001 to 2005, using the most capitalized firms in the Nigerian Capital market. The
findings confirm a positive linear relationship between market betas and security returns for the sampled Nigerian
firms.
Key words: Betas , capital asset pricing model, , , , ,
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Ifuero Osad Osamwonyi and Esther Ikavbo Asein, . Market Risk and Returns: Evidence from the Nigerian Capital Market. Asian Journal of Business Management, (4): 367-372.
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ISSN (Online): 2041-8752
ISSN (Print): 2041-8744 |
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