Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55241 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series No. IF33V3
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Finanzwirtschaft, Braunschweig
Abstract: 
We show analytically under quite general conditions that implied rates of return based on analysts' earnings forecasts are only a downward biased estimator for future expected one-period returns and therefore not suited for computing market risk premia. The extent of this bias is substantial as verified by a bootstrap approach. We present an alternative estimation equation for future expected one-period returns based on current and past implied rates of return that is superior to simple estimators based on historical returns. The reason for this superiority is a lower variance of estimation results and not the circumvention of the discount rate effect typically stated as a major problem of estimators based on historical return realizations. The superiority of this new approach for portfolio selection purposes is verified numerically for our bootstrap environment and empirically for real capital market data.
Subjects: 
analysts' earnings forecasts
discount rate effect
equity premium puzzle
implied rate of return
JEL: 
G11
G12
G14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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