Empirical Evidence on Asset Pricing and Time-Varying Beta

The book is based on understanding asset pricing modelsand as a research case analyses it in Indian stock market along with incorporating the role and applicability of the concept of time-varying beta. Beta has been used by researchers for a long time as a static value, and applied in various models to take investment decisions. Keeping in mind the current volatile environment, the book presents the concept of time-varying beta using Schwert and Seguin Model and by testing the results, shows its effectiveness in Indian stock market.The book builts on the concept of introducing and augmenting time-varying beta concept, as an effective measure to capture the volatility of the market and incorporate it in asset pricing models for better returns from the market.The book can be used by finance researchers and students for understanding asset pricing models better, for gaining knowledge about the process of creating portfolios and developing augmented models. The book is one of its kind to present data of large number of Indian companies for 15 years and evaluating CAPM and Fama-French models along with the concept of time-varying beta, covering global financial crisis period and analysing volatile market situations which make it highly relevant present volatile times. The bookis highly relevant for mutual fund managers and stock market regulators for pricing the assets and designing profitable investment strategies. Not only this, but the bookalso provides valuableinsights for different scenarios like inflation, pandemic COVID-19, economic slowdownanddepression.The study forms a basis for future

research based on asset pricing and dynamic beta in the Indian stock market.