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Maximum likelihood estimation of the equity premium / Efstathios Avdis, Jessica A. Wachter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avdis, Efstathios.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19684.
- NBER working paper series no. w19684
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- The equity premium, namely the expected return on the aggregate stock market less the government bill rate, is of central importance to the portfolio allocation of individuals, to the investment decisions of firms, and to model calibration and testing. This quantity is usually estimated from the sample average excess return. We propose an alternative estimator, based on maximum likelihood, that takes into account information contained in dividends and prices. Applied to the postwar sample, our method leads to an economically significant reduction from 6.4% to 5.1%. Simulation results show that our method produces tighter estimates under a range of specifications.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2013.
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