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ISBN: 9780077861704

Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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The slope of the security market line is equal to what?

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Solution Summary: The author explains that the security market line is an upward sloping positive line that represents the relationship between the expected return of a security and its beta coefficient.

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