 Re-examining the risk–return relationship in Europe: Linear or non-linear trade-off?Enrique Salvador, Christos Floros and Vicent Arago Journal of Empirical Finance, 2014, vol. 28, issue C, 60-77 Abstract: This paper analyzes the risk–return trade-off in Europe using recent data from 11 European stock markets. After relaxing the linear assumptions in the risk–return relationship by introducing a new approach that considers the current state of the market, we obtain significant evidence for a positive risk–return trade-off for low volatility states. However, this finding is reduced or even non-significant during periods of high volatility. Maintaining the linear assumption over the risk–return trade-off leads to non-significant estimations for all cases. These results are robust across countries despite the conditional volatility model used. These results also demonstrate that the inconclusive results in previous studies may be due to strong linear assumptions when modeling the risk–return trade-off. This previous research fails to uncover the global behavior of the relationship between return and risk. Keywords: Non-linear risk–return tradeoff; Pro-cyclical risk aversion; Regime-Switching GARCH; Regime-Switching MIDAS; Risk premium (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:empfin:v:28:y:2014:i:c:p:60-77 DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2014.05.004 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Empirical Finance is currently edited by R. T. Baillie, F. C. Palm, Th. J. Vermaelen and C. C. P. Wolff More articles in Journal of Empirical Finance from Elsevier |
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