This study derives and evaluates estimates of the equity risk premium inferred from the stock prices and analysts' earnings forecasts of U.S. insurance companies. During most of the sample period, April 1983 through September 2012, the quarterly median implied equity risk premium (IERP) of U.S....

This paper estimates the cost of capital from observed accounting information and compares the resulting estimates with so-called implied cost of capital (ICC) calculations and those from asset pricing models. The estimates are based on the idea that buying earnings growth is risky, and...

This paper offers an approach for estimating the cost of capital from observed accounting information and compares the resulting estimates to so-called implied cost of capital (ICC) calculations and those from asset pricing models. The approach is based on two ideas. First, buying expected...

Calculations of the Implied Cost of Capital (ICC) typically fail on validation criteria. This paper provides an explanation. Though nominally working with accounting-based valuation models, the standard approach fails to recognize accounting principles that govern the accounting. Those...

We connect conservative accounting to the cost of capital by developing an accounting model within an asset pricing framework. The model has three distinctive features: (1) transaction-cycle-conformity, where the book value equals the value of cash at the beginning and the end of a cash-to-cash...

We connect conservative accounting to the cost of capital by developing an accounting model within an asset pricing framework. The model has three distinctive features: (1) transaction-cycle-conformity, where the book value of an investment equals the value of cash at the beginning and the end...