Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780077861704
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 12, Problem 5QP
Nominal versus Real Returns [LO2] What was the average annual return on large-company stock from 1926 through 2013:
a. In nominal terms?
b. In real terms?
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What is the standard deviation of the returns on a stock given the following information?
State of Economy
Probability of State of Economy
Rate of Return if State Occurs
Boom
.08
.171
Normal
.70
.076
Recession
.22
.017
What is the standard deviation of the returns on a stock given the following information? Could you please show the work?
State of Economy
Probability of state of Economy
Rate of return if state occurs
Boom
0.3000
0.1500
Normal
0.6500
0.1200
Recession
0.0500
0.0600
Average
0.3333
0.1100
Assume these are the stock market and Treasury bill returns for a 5-year period:
Stock Market T-Bill Return
(%)
0.02
0.02
0.02
0. 20
Return (%)
Year
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
31.7
10.9
-1.6
13.0
21.3
0.80
Required:
a. What was the risk premium on common stock in each year? (Negative values should be entered with a negative sign.)
b. What was the average risk premium?
c. What was the standard deviation of the risk premium? (Ignore that the estimation is from a sample of data.)
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
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