Tokenization and asset pricing: expanding financial observability of real assets an application to energy infrastructure in Vaca Muerta
Standard asset pricing theory defines the market portfolio as the aggregation of all risky assets in the economy. In practice, however, empirical implementations of models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) rely almost exclusively on publicly traded equities and, to a lesser extent, corporate debt. As a result, a large set of economically relevant assets—particularly real estate, infrastructure, and physical capital—remain central to production and wealth accumulation but are largely absent from the observable and tradable asset set on which empirical asset pricing is based.