Conditional Equity Premium and Aggregate Corporate Investment

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming

85 Pages Posted: 27 Mar 2017 Last revised: 22 Sep 2021

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Hui Guo

University of Cincinnati - Department of Finance - Real Estate

Buhui Qiu

The University of Sydney - Discipline of Finance; Financial Research Network (FIRN)

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Date Written: March 24, 2021

Abstract

We document a strong negative relation between aggregate corporate investment and conditional equity premium estimated from direct stock market risk measures. Consistent with the investment-based asset pricing model, the comovement with conditional equity premium fully accounts for aggregate investment’s market return predictive power. Similarly, conditional equity premium is a significant determinant of classic Tobin’s q measure, although q has much weaker explanatory power for aggregate investment possibly because of its measurement errors. Moreover, the positive relation between aggregate investment and investor sentiment documented in previous studies reflects the fact that both variables correlate closely with conditional equity premium.

Keywords: Aggregate Corporate Investment, Return on Assets, Aggregate Corporate Profitability, Conditional Equity Premium, Market Variance, Aggregate Idiosyncratic Variance, Tobin’s q, Investor Sentiment, Investment-Based Asset Pricing Model

JEL Classification: G10, G12, G3

Suggested Citation

Guo, Hui and Qiu, Buhui, Conditional Equity Premium and Aggregate Corporate Investment (March 24, 2021). Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2940884 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2940884

Hui Guo

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