Session 18: Portfolio Management: Capital Market Theory and the Portfolio Management Process Reading 68: International Asset Pricing
LOS j: Explain the effect of market segmentation on the ICAPM.
Suppose world markets are fully segmented. What will be the effect of segmentation of the international capital asset pricing model (ICAPM)? Risk will be priced:
A) |
differently in each national market and the ICAPM will be valid. | |
B) |
differently in each national market and the ICAPM breaks down. | |
C) |
similarly in each national market and the ICAPM breaks down. | |
Segmentation means that risk will be priced differently in each national market, hence the ICAPM, which assumes uniform risk pricing, breaks down. |