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In the Results of the Earliest Estimations of the Security

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In the results of the earliest estimations of the security market line by Miller and Scholes (1972) , it was found that the average difference between a stock's return and the risk-free rate was ________ to its nonsystematic risk and ________ to its beta.


Definitions:

Market Risk Premium

The extra return over the risk-free rate that investors require to hold a risky market portfolio.

Beta

A measure of a stock's volatility in relation to the overall market; often used as a gauge of an asset's risk.

Security Market Line

A line that represents the relationship between risk and expected return in financial markets.

Market Risk Premium

The supplementary income expected by an investor from maintaining a risky market portfolio rather than holding risk-free investments.

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