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Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) & Fama and MacBeth (1973)

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The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) was one of the first laws in finance and it’s still widely used or, in other cases, part of new (improved) models. The CAPM describes the relationship between systematic risk and expected return for assets, generally stocks. But how do we quantify this specific relation?