Econophysics and Capital Asset Pricing

James Ming Chen holds the Justin Smith Morrill Chair in Law at Michigan State University, USA. His books, Disaster Law and Policy, Postmodern Portfolio Theory, and Finance and the Behavioral Prospect cover a broad range of issues concerning extreme events and risk management, from natural to financial disasters. He is of counsel to the Technology Law Group of Washington, DC; a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States; and an elected member of the American Law Institute. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and a former editor of the Harvard Law Review, Chen also served as a clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States.

“The book is more suitable for market practitioners than for financial mathematicians since the mathematical description is relatively well known. It can, however, shed new light on the well-known and widely used CAPM and maybe motivate some practitioners to adopt more accurate models of capital asset pricing. Therefore I recommend this book for readers who have not encountered econophysics yet and who are not familiar with advanced mathematical models of asset pricing.” (Jan Korbel, Mathematical Reviews, October, 2019)

• 1. Baryonic Beta Dynamics: The Econophysics of Systematic Risk.- 2. Double- and Single-Sided Risk Measures.- 3. Relative Volatility Versus Correlation Tightening.- 4. Asymmetrical Volatility and Spillover Effects.- 5. The Low-Volatility Anomaly.- 6. Correlation Tightening.- 7. The Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model.- 8. The Equity Premium Puzzle.- 9. Beta’s Cash-Flow and Discount-Rate Components.- 10. Risk and Uncertainty.- 11. Short-Term Price Continuation Anomalies.- 12. Systematic Risk in the Macrocosmos.- 13. The Baryonic Ladder: The Firm, the Market, and the Economy.