Aggregate Implied Cost of Capital, Option Implied Information and Equity Premium Predictability by Patrick Launhardt, Felix Miebs :: SSRN
Aggregate Implied Cost of Capital, Option Implied Information and Equity Premium Predictability
Posted: 21 Jun 2019 Last revised: 7 Oct 2019
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Felix Miebs
The aggregate implied cost of capital (ICC) from analyst estimates finds a variety of applications in finance and is documented to predict the equity premium. Yet, the construction of the analyst-based ICC is data intensive and imposes restrictions on the employed analyst estimates. We suggest a new way to obtain a market-wide ICC using implied information from index options. We show that the resulting ICC predicts the equity premium in- and out-of-sample. At the same time, we find that the predictive power of the aggregate ICC from analyst estimates is not prevalent in our sample once we control for the persistence of the variable.
Keywords: implied cost of capital; equity risk premium; option implied information; predictive regression
Launhardt, Patrick and Miebs, Felix, Aggregate Implied Cost of Capital, Option Implied Information and Equity Premium Predictability (May 30, 2019). Finance Research Letters, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405213 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3405213
Felix Miebs (Contact Author)
University of Applied Sciences Cologne ( email )