Can Equity Volatility Explain the Global Loan Pricing Puzzle?

Can Equity Volatility Explain the Global Loan Pricing Puzzle?∗

We examine whether equity volatility can explain the difference in syndicated corporate loan spreads paid by U.S. and European borrowers first documented by Carey and Nini (2007). We argue that OLS estimates of the association between equity volatility and loan spreads are biased and inconsistent. We suggest instrumental variables that potentially identify consistent estimates. Our instrumental...

Equity Home Bias: Can Information Cost Explain the Puzzle?

The Equity Premium Puzzle: Can Income Help?

In this paper we argue that implementing the income in the utility function can considerably contribute to the explanation of the equity premium puzzle. Macroeconomic data from developed and developing countries provides support to this idea. We propose a utility function that includes consumption, income and disentangles dividends as a specific form of income, and price assets using a consumpt...

How speculation can explain the equity premium

When measured over decades in countries that have been relatively stable, returns from stocks have been substantially better than returns from bonds. This is often attributed to investors’ risk aversion: stocks are thought to be riskier than bonds, and so investors will pay less for an expected return from stocks than for the same expected return from bonds. The game-theoretic probability-free ...

The equity premium puzzle and emotional asset pricing

Since the equity premium as well as the risk-free rate puzzle question the concepts central to financial and economic modeling, we apply behavioral decision theory to asset pricing in view of solving these puzzles. U.S. stock market data for the period 1960-2003 and German stock market data for the period 1977-2003 show that emotional investors who act in accordance to Bell's (1985) disappointm...