This paper decomposes the risk premia of individual stocks into contributions from systematic and idiosyncratic risks … the variance of idiosyncratic returns. The estimation is performed on a time series of returns and option prices from 2006 … 80% of the equity and variance risk premia, respectively. I provide a categorization of sectors based on the risk profile …

extensive number of robustness checks. Overall, downside cash flow risk is priced most consistently across different samples … ability. The downside cash flow risk premium is mainly attributable to small stocks. The risk premium for large stocks appears … much more driven by a compensation for symmetric, cash flow related risk. Finally, we multiply our premia estimates by …