Generalized Market Equilibrium: "Stable" CAPM

Abstract : Our main purpose in this paper is to derive the generalized equilibrium relationship between risk and return under the assumption that the asset returns follow a joint symmetric stable distribution. We show that equilibrium rates of return on all risky assets are functions of their covariation with the market portfolio. The "stable" CAPM highlights a new measure of the quantity of risk which may be interpreted as a "generalized beta coefficient".