The Asset Pricing System

Yi-Jang Yu

Department of Economics, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Chinese Taipei.

DOI: 10.4236/me.2012.35062                

Abstract

Mainstream asset pricing models are all inappropriate when they consistently insist on applying one single model to deal with a reality filled with different aspects of asset pricing. In addition, those models also treat the right environ-ment variable too lightly hence can not rightly do the job of asset pricing. In this study, based on the portfolio theory and the principle of supply and demand, a more reasonable asset pricing system including five different models will be suggested to provide a necessary function of automatic price stabilization and to better serve our financial market.

Keywords

Asset Pricing System; Environment Variable; Portfolio Theory; Automatic Price Stabilization

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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