The Global Determinants of International Equity Risk Premiums

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Juan M. Londono

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Nancy R. Xu

Boston College, Carroll School of Management

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Date Written: May, 2021

Abstract

We examine the commonality in international equity risk premiums by linking empirical evidence for the international stock return predictability of US downside and upside variance risk premiums (DVP and UVP, respectively) with implications from an international asset pricing framework, which takes the perspective of a US/global investor and features asymmetric global macroeconomic, financial market, and risk aversion shocks. We find that DVP and UVP predict international stock returns through different global equity risk premium determinants: bad and good macroeconomic uncertainties, respectively. Across countries, US investors demand lower macroeconomic risk compensation but higher financial market risk compensation for more-integrated countries.

JEL Classification: F36, G12, G13, G15

Suggested Citation

Londono-Yarce, Juan-Miguel and Xu, Nancy R., The Global Determinants of International Equity Risk Premiums (May, 2021). International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1318, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3865433 or http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/IFDP.2021.1318

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