December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
8h 7m
English
A Bayesian estimate of security beta β is obtained from its posterior distribution, which is approximately normal with mean

and variance
where b is the least-squares estimate of β in a linear regression,
is the standard error of the estimate, and b′ and
are the mean and standard deviation, respectively, of prior information about the company's beta. In the absence of more specific knowledge about the company, the parameters of the prior distribution can be set to the mean
and standard deviation of the cross-sectional distribution of betas in the universe. (page 291)
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