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T-bills Beat Most Global Stocks?
July 30, 2019 • Posted in Equity Premium
Do most stocks worldwide beat the risk-free rate of return? In their July 2019 paper entitled “Do Global Stocks Outperform US Treasury Bills?”, Hendrik Bessembinder, Te-Feng Chen, Goeun Choi and John Wei compare returns of individual global common stocks to that of 1-month U.S. Treasury bills (T-bills). They screen stock price data for obvious errors and filter/correct accordingly. For delisted stocks with no delisting return available, they set the final return to -30%. Using monthly returns with reinvested dividends in U.S. dollars for 17,505 U.S. and 44,476 non-U.S. stocks across 41 other countries (25 developed and 16 emerging) and monthly T-bill yield during 1990 through 2018, they find that:
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