Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Options and The CAPM

In a CAPM world would anyone buy options?

4 comments:

Barney Hartman-Glaser said...

I think this must depend on what assumptions you use to get the CAPM.

But a larger question is: what is meant by a CAPM world? Are we just talking about 2 fund separation, or are we talking about beta pricing, or what? This seems ambiguous to me, but it must not be

Barney Hartman-Glaser said...

If we need to assume asset returns are jointly normal, than we can even consider options since they have returns which are either bounded below or above

Andres said...

You mean "never" consider options, right?

Barney Hartman-Glaser said...

yes I mean never