The Equity Premium in July 2008: Survey (in Spanish)

10 Pages Posted: 14 Jul 2008

Date Written: July 14, 2008

Abstract

We analyze the results of a recent survey of executives and finance professors. We present the required equity premium used in 2008 by 216 companies and 39 professors and their comments. The range of the 216 companies goes from 2% to 30% (average 6.3%) and the range of the 39 academics goes from 3.5% to 10% (average 5.5%). We also present comments from140 companies and 3 professors that do not use any required equity premium.

Keywords: equity premium, required market risk premium, historical market risk premium, expected market risk premium, market risk premium

JEL Classification: G12, G31, M21

Suggested Citation

Fernandez, Pablo, The Equity Premium in July 2008: Survey (in Spanish) (July 14, 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1159818 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1159818

Pablo Fernandez (Contact Author)

IESE Business School ( email )

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