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Entropy-based financial asset pricing: Evidence from Pakistan

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  • Sheng Wang
  • Sher Ali Khan
  • Mubbasher Munir
  • Reda Alhajj
  • Yousaf Ali Khan

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Entropy is an alternative measure to calculate the risk, simplify the portfolios and equity risk premium. It has higher explanatory power than capital asset price model (CAPM) beta. The comparison of Entropy and CAPM beta provide in depth analysis about the explanatory power of the model that in turn help investor to make right investment decisions that minimizes risk. In this context, this study aims to compare Shannon and Rennyi Entropies with the CAPM beta for measuring the risk. Ordinary Least square approach has been utilized using a dataset of 67 enterprises registered in Pakistan Stock exchange. The comparative analysis of CAPM beta and entropy has been carried out with the R2 parameters. The result indicates that entropy has more explanatory power as compare to CAPM beta’s explanatory power, and this turns out to be the best option to evaluate the risk performances. The result implies that an investor should make the best investment decision by choosing an enterprise that provide with good returns at minimum risk based on entropy technique.

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  • Sheng Wang & Sher Ali Khan & Mubbasher Munir & Reda Alhajj & Yousaf Ali Khan, 2022. "Entropy-based financial asset pricing: Evidence from Pakistan," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(12), pages 1-14, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0278236
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278236
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