
We study a new data set of dividend futures with maturities up to ten years across three world regions: the US, Europe, and Japan. We use these asset prices to construct equity yields, analogous to bond yields. We decompose the equity yields to obtain a term structure of expected dividend growth rates and a term structure of risk premia, which decomposes the equity risk premium by maturity. We find that the slope of the term structure of risk premia is pro-cyclical, whereas the slope of the term structure of expected dividend growth rates is counter-cyclical. The comovement of yields across regions is, on average, higher for long-maturity yields than for short-maturity yields, whereas the variation in this comovement is much higher for short-maturity yields
Finance and Financial Management, equity yields, term structure, risk premia, economic activity, 332, Finance, jel: jel:E32, jel: jel:E43, jel: jel:E44, jel: jel:G12, jel: jel:G10, jel: jel:F01
Finance and Financial Management, equity yields, term structure, risk premia, economic activity, 332, Finance, jel: jel:E32, jel: jel:E43, jel: jel:E44, jel: jel:G12, jel: jel:G10, jel: jel:F01
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