{"title":"Implied equity premium and market beta","authors":"Zhan Wang , K. Victor Chow , Jiahao Gu","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2025.107095","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We extend the ex-ante mean-variance (SVIX) asset pricing models of Martin (2017) and Martin-Wagner (2019) to a mean-VIX framework by incorporating higher-moment and co-moment risk in asset pricing, which builds a theoretical connection between equity returns and the commonly used implied volatility—VIX. Our proposed mean-VIX model is risk-neutral with left-tail asymmetries in returns to correct the SVIX approach's downside bias. We derive an option implied market beta of a stock as the weighted average of the betas of SVIX and VIX. Empirically, we develop an investible market portfolio (MKT*) that mimics realized outcomes on the implied market index adjusted for SVIX and VIX. Based on the MKT*, the mean-VIX asset pricing framework shows superior abilities in return prediction and portfolio allocation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 107095"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Finance Research Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1544612325003587","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/3/5 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We extend the ex-ante mean-variance (SVIX) asset pricing models of Martin (2017) and Martin-Wagner (2019) to a mean-VIX framework by incorporating higher-moment and co-moment risk in asset pricing, which builds a theoretical connection between equity returns and the commonly used implied volatility—VIX. Our proposed mean-VIX model is risk-neutral with left-tail asymmetries in returns to correct the SVIX approach's downside bias. We derive an option implied market beta of a stock as the weighted average of the betas of SVIX and VIX. Empirically, we develop an investible market portfolio (MKT*) that mimics realized outcomes on the implied market index adjusted for SVIX and VIX. Based on the MKT*, the mean-VIX asset pricing framework shows superior abilities in return prediction and portfolio allocation.
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