Persistence in the Market Risk Premium: Evidence Across Countries

31 Pages Posted: 15 Apr 2020

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Guglielmo Maria Caporale

Brunel University London - Department of Economics and Finance; London South Bank University; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

Luis A. Gil-Alana

University of Navarra - Department of Economics

Miguel Martin-Valmayor

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

Date Written: 2020

Abstract

This paper provides evidence on the degree of persistence of one of the key components of the CAPM, namely the market risk premium, as well as its volatility. The analysis applies fractional integration methods to data for the US, Germany and Japan, and for robustness purposes considers different time horizons (2, 5 and 10 years) and frequencies (monthly and weekly). The empirical findings in most cases imply that the market risk premium is a highly persistent variable which can be characterized as a random walk process, whilst its volatility is less persistent and exhibits stationary long-memory behaviour. There is also evidence that in the case of the US the degree of persistence has changed as a results of various events; this is confirmed by both endogenous break tests and the associated subsample estimates. Market participants should take this evidence into account when designing their investment strategies.

Keywords: CAPM, risk premium, persistence, mean reversion, long memory

JEL Classification: C220, G110

Suggested Citation

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria and Gil-Alana, Luis A. and Martin-Valmayor, Miguel, Persistence in the Market Risk Premium: Evidence Across Countries (2020). CESifo Working Paper No. 8211, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3576288 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3576288

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