Author(s)

Irfan Lal^1*, Muhammad Mubeen², Adnan Hussain³, Muhammad Zubair¹

¹Department of Economics, Institute of Business Management, Karachi, Pakistan.
²Department of Management, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
³Department of Economics, Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University, Karachi, Pakistan.

The purpose behind this study is to explore the relationship between expected return and risk of portfolios. It is observed that standard CAPM is inappropriate, so we introduce higher moment in model. For this purpose, the study takes data of 60 listed companies of Karachi Stock Exchange 100 index. The data are inspected for the period of 1^st January 2007 to 31^st December 2013. From the empirical analysis, it is observed that the intercept term and higher moments coefficients (skewness and kurtosis) are highly significant and different from zero. When higher moment is introduced in the model, the adjusted R square is increased. The higher moment CAPM performs cooperatively perform well.

Capital Assets Price Model, Higher Moment

Lal, I. , Mubeen, M. , Hussain, A. and Zubair, M. (2016) An Empirical Analysis of Higher Moment Capital Asset Pricing Model for Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Open Journal of Social Sciences, 4, 53-60. doi: 10.4236/jss.2016.46006.