The Fundamental Equity Premium and Ambiguity Aversion in an International Context

Minh Hai Ngo, Marc Oliver Rieger and Shuonan Yuan

Chapter 14 in Cultural Finance:A World Map of Risk, Time and Money, 2020, pp 265-302 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Stocks are riskier than bonds. This causes a risk premium for stocks. That the size of this premium, however, seems to be larger than risk aversion alone can explain the so-called “equity premium puzzle”. One possible explanation is the inclusion of a degree of ambiguity in stock returns to account for an additional ambiguity premium, whose size depends on the degree of ambiguity aversion among investors. It is, however, difficult to test this empirically. In this paper, we compute the first firm-level estimation of equity premium based on the internal rate of return (IRR) approach for a total of N = 28,256 companies in 54 countries worldwide. Using a survey of international data on ambiguity aversion, we find a strong and robust relation between equity premia and ambiguity aversion.

Keywords: Finance; Culture; International; Time Preferences; Risk Preferences; Decision Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D9 E7 G4 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789811221958_0014 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789811221958_0014 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811221958_0014

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().