Estimating the Intertemporal Risk-Return Tradeoff Using the Implied Cost of Capital / Lubos Pastor, Meenakshi Sinha, Bhaskaran Swaminathan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pastor, Lubos.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Sinha, Meenakshi.

Swaminathan, Bhaskaran.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11941.

NBER working paper series no. w11941

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.

Summary:

We reexamine the time-series relation between the conditional mean and variance of stock market returns. To proxy for the conditional mean return, we use the implied cost of capital, computed using analyst forecasts. The usefulness of this proxy is shown in simulations. In empirical analysis, we construct the time series of the implied cost of capital for the G-7 countries. We find strong support for a positive intertemporal mean-variance relation at both the country level and the world market level. Some of our evidence is consistent with international integration of the G-7 financial markets.

Notes:

Print version record

January 2006.