James W. Kolari is the JP Morgan Chase Professor of Finance and Academic Director of the Commercial Banking Program in the Department of Finance at Texas A&M University, USA.

Wei Liu is Senior Quantitative Analyst for USAA Bank with duties building and implementing models for bank stress tests, marketing programs, and credit risk analyses.

Jianhua Z. Huang is a Professor of Statistics and Arseven/Mitchell Chair in Astronomical Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University, USA.

Proposes a new asset pricing model (i.e. the ZCAPM) that has been shown to dominate other popular models in extensive empirical tests using U.S. stock returns over 50 years of analyses

Represents an empirical version of the now famous Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) by 1990 Nobel Laureate William Sharpe

Provides access to computer programs (both Matlab and R coding) for the ZCAPM model with instructions¿

Part I. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Asset Pricing Evolution.- Part II. Theoretical ZCAPM.- Chapter 2. Capital Asset Pricing Models.- Chapter 3. Theoretical Form of the ZCAPM.- Part III. Empirical ZCAPM.- Chapter 4. Empirical Form of the ZCAPM.- Part IV. Empirical Evidence.- Chapter 5. Stock Return Data and Empirical Methods.- Chapter 6. Empirical Tests of the ZCAPM.- Chapter 7. Cross-Sectional Tests of the ZCAPM.- Part V. Applications of the ZCAPM.- Chapter 8. The Momentum Mytery: An Application of the ZCAPM.- Chapter 9. E¿cient Investment Portfolios: An Application of the ZCAPM.- Part VI. Conclusion.- Chapter 10. Synopsis of Asset Pricing and the ZCAPM.