Factors and Risk Premia in Individual International Stock Returns

87 Pages Posted: 7 Feb 2020 Last revised: 18 Aug 2020

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Ines Chaieb

University of Geneva - Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI); Swiss Finance Institute

Hugues Langlois

HEC Paris - Finance Department

O. Scaillet

Swiss Finance Institute - University of Geneva

Date Written: January 15, 2020

Abstract

We propose an estimation methodology tailored for large unbalanced panels of individual stock returns to study the factor structure and expected returns in international stock markets. We show that the local market is necessary to capture the factor structure in both developed and emerging markets. Neither the presence of multiple world risk factors, regional risk factors, systematic currency risk factors, nor a country-specific currency subsumes the importance of the local market factor. All factors, including the local market, carry significant risk premia across a large proportion of countries. The contribution of pricing errors to total expected returns is large and time-varying.

Keywords: approximate factor model, emerging markets, international asset pricing, large panel, market integration, time-varying risk premium

JEL Classification: C12, C13, C23, C51, C52 , G12, G15

Suggested Citation

Chaieb, Ines and Langlois, Hugues and Scaillet, Olivier, Factors and Risk Premia in Individual International Stock Returns (January 15, 2020). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 18-04, HEC Paris Research Paper No. FIN-2018-1250, Proceedings of Paris December 2019 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - ESSEC, Forthcoming in Journal of Financial Economics, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3103752 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3103752

Ines Chaieb (Contact Author)

University of Geneva - Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI) ( email )

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Hugues Langlois

HEC Paris - Finance Department ( email )

France

Olivier Scaillet

Swiss Finance Institute - University of Geneva ( email )

Geneva
Switzerland

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