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Year | Large Company | US Treasury Bill |
1 | 3.90% | 5.84% |
2 | 14.47 | 2.49 |
3 | 19.21 | 3.72 |
4 | –14.47 | 7.14 |
5 | –31.96 | 5.26 |
6 | 37.45 | 6.39 |
a. |
Calculate the arithmetic average returns for large-company stocks and T-bills over this period. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
b. | Calculate the standard deviation of the returns for large-company stocks and T-bills over this period. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
c-1. | Calculate the observed risk premium in each year for the large-company stocks versus the T-bills. What was the average risk premium over this period? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
c-2. | Calculate the observed risk premium in each year for the large-company stocks versus the T-bills. What was the standard deviation of the risk premium over this period? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
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a. | Large-company stocks | 4.77 | % |
T-bills | 5.14 | % | |
b. | Large-company stocks | 22.70 | % |
T-bills | 1.59 | % | |
c-1. | Average risk premium | -0.37 | % |
c-2. | Standard deviation | 23.30 | % |