The yield to maturity (YTM) or internal rate of return (IRR) is a metric used in financial analysis to estimate the profitability of potential investments. Almost all finance textbooks state the following conditioning assumptions: (i) that the coupon payments can be reinvested at a rate equal to...

The term structure of equity returns is downward-sloping: stocks with high cash flow duration earn 1.10% per month lower returns than short-duration stocks in the cross section. I create a measure of cash flow duration at the firm level using balance sheet data to show this novel fact. Factor...

The term structure of equity returns is downward-sloping: stocks with high cash flow duration earn 1.10% per month lower returns than short-duration stocks in the cross section. I create a measure of cash flow duration at the firm level using balance sheet data to show this novel fact. Factor...

The term structure of equity returns is downward-sloping: stocks with high cash flow duration earn 1.10% per month lower returns than short-duration stocks in the cross section. I create a measure of cash flow duration at the firm level using balance sheet data to show this novel fact. Factor...

Ample evidence suggests that individuals are overly optimistic about future outcomes. But does the length of a particular forecast horizon affect optimism levels? In this paper, we extend Brunnermeier and Parker's (2005) optimal expectations framework to a multi-period model, which casts the...

The term structure of equity returns is downward-sloping: stocks with high cash flow duration earn 1.10% per month lower returns than short-duration stocks in the cross section. I create a measure of cash flow duration at the firm level using balance sheet data to show this novel fact. Factor...

1. We test the downward slopping equity term structure in an environment of negative interest rate. 2. We improve the measure of equity duration proposed by \citet*[][]{dechow2004}. 3. We show that the “short-duration” factor improves the performance of factor models. 4. We show that...