Liu, Yicheng; Xue, Chen; Zhang, Lu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2026
The q5-characteristics model estimates costs of equity as Lewellen's (2015) out-of-sample forecasts from cross-sectional regressions. The q5-cost of equity is competitive in evaluation tests, outperforming the accounting implied cost of equity in predicting cross-sectional returns. The q5-cost...