Download This PaperAnalyzing the Time-Varying Stock Market Risk-Return Relation
34 Pages Posted: 2 Jan 2009 Last revised: 21 Jun 2011
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
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