Equity Premia as Low as Three Percent? Evidence from Analysts' Earnings Forecasts for Domestic and International Stock Markets
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- 1 October 2001
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Finance
- Vol. 56 (5) , 1629-1666
- https://doi.org/10.1111/0022-1082.00384
Abstract
The returns earned by U.S. equities since 1926 exceed estimates derived from theory, from other periods and markets, and from surveys of institutional investors. Rather than examine historic experience, we estimate the equity premium from the discount rate that equates market valuations with prevailing expectations of future flows. The accounting flows we project are isomorphic to projected dividends but use more available information and narrow the range of reasonable growth rates. For each year between 1985 and 1998, we find that the equity premium is around three percent (or less) in the United States and five other markets.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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