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Chapter 6

References

Please refer to the following articles:

• Carhart, Mark M., 1997, On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance, Journal

of Finance 52, 57-82.

• Fama, Eugene and Kenneth R. French, 1993, Common risk factors in the

returns on stocks and bonds, Journal of Financial Economics 33, 3056.

• Fama, Eugene and Kenneth R. French, 1992, The cross-section of expected

stock returns, Journal of Finance 47, 427-465.

• String manipulation: http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/basics/

string-manipulation-in-python

Appendix A – data case #3 - beta estimation

Objective: hands-on experience to estimate the market risk for a given set of

companies:

1. What are alpha and beta for those companies?

2. Comment on your results.

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