Stock Market Level, 2000-2016, 2000 100
Stock Market Level, 2000-2016, 2000 100
Stock Market Level, 2000-2016, 2000 100
ri = rf + b i (rm - rf )
Market Risk versus Idiosyncratic Risk
• By construction, the residuals of error terms in a regression
are uncorrelated with the fitted or predicted value
• So, the variance of the return of a stock is equal to its beta
squared times the variance of the market return (systematic
risk) plus the variance of the residual in the regression
(idiosyncratic risk)