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  2. Beta (finance) - Wikipedia

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    Beta can be used to indicate the contribution of an individual asset to the market risk of a portfolio when it is added in small quantity. It refers to an asset's non-diversifiable risk, systematic risk, or market risk. Beta is not a measure of idiosyncratic risk. Beta is the hedge ratio of an investment with respect to the stock market.

  3. Hamada's equation - Wikipedia

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    The importance of Hamada's equation is that it separates the risk of the business, reflected here by the beta of an unlevered firm, β U, from that of its levered counterpart, β L, which contains the financial risk of leverage. Apart from the effect of the tax rate, which is generally taken as constant, the discrepancy between the two betas ...

  4. Discounted utility - Wikipedia

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    In economics, discounted utility is the utility (desirability) of some future event, such as consuming a certain amount of a good, as perceived at the present time as opposed to at the time of its occurrence. [1]

  5. Standardized coefficient - Wikipedia

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    Standardization of the coefficient is usually done to answer the question of which of the independent variables have a greater effect on the dependent variable in a multiple regression analysis where the variables are measured in different units of measurement (for example, income measured in dollars and family size measured in number of individuals).

  6. Modern portfolio theory - Wikipedia

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    β, Beta, is the measure of asset sensitivity to a movement in the overall market; Beta is usually found via regression on historical data. Betas exceeding one signify more than average "riskiness" in the sense of the asset's contribution to overall portfolio risk; betas below one indicate a lower than average risk contribution.

  7. What Beta Means: Understanding a Stock’s Risk - AOL

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    Beta is an important measure of one type of risk, but it doesn’t encapsulate all of a stock’s risk. Stocks are shares of real-life businesses , which subjects them to the economic fortunes of ...

  8. Generalized beta distribution - Wikipedia

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    The beta family includes the beta of the first and second kind [7] (B1 and B2, where the B2 is also referred to as the Beta prime), which correspond to c = 0 and c = 1, respectively. Setting c = 0 {\displaystyle c=0} , b = 1 {\displaystyle b=1} yields the standard two-parameter beta distribution .

  9. Economic efficiency - Wikipedia

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    The mainstream view is that market economies are generally believed to be closer to efficient than other known alternatives [4] and that government involvement is necessary at the macroeconomic level (via fiscal policy and monetary policy) to counteract the economic cycle – following Keynesian economics.