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The Small Noise Arbitrage Pricing Theory

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  • Steve Satchell

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This paper presents a small-noise version of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) which allows us to interpret the approximate linearity of the risk premia in terms of factor exposures for a fixed number of assets. The approximation becomes more accurate as the noise of the system decreases, even though the number of assets stays fixed.

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  • Steve Satchell, 1999. "The Small Noise Arbitrage Pricing Theory," Research Paper Series 4, Quantitative Finance Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney.
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    Keywords

    arbitrage pricing theory; linear factor models;

    JEL classification:

    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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