Investment horizon dependent CAPM : adjusting beta for long-term dependence

Number: 
730
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
G12, G14, G32, G20, C14
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

Financial basics and intuition stresses the importance of investment horizon for risk management and asset allocation. However, the beta parameter of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is invariant to the holding period. Such contradiction is due to t