Analyzing the Time-Varying Stock Market Risk-Return Relation

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C. N. V. Krishnan

Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance

Ralitsa Petkova

Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance

Date Written: June 15, 2011

Abstract

We analyze the stock market risk-return relation over the period from 1927 to 2005. We empirically implement the Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICAPM) using a cross-section of stock and bond portfolios, and allow for the market price of risk to be time-varying. We show that including bond portfolios in the estimation not only significantly changes the time-series estimates of the market price of risk, but also makes the correlation between conditional stock-market variance and the variance component of expected market return positive.

Keywords: Stock Market Risk-Return Relation, Stock and bond portfolios, Market price of risk, Conditional stock-market variance, Risk component of expected market return

JEL Classification: G12

Suggested Citation

Krishnan, C. N. V. and Petkova, Ralitsa, Analyzing the Time-Varying Stock Market Risk-Return Relation (June 15, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1322312 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1322312

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Ralitsa Petkova

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