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Consider the following table for a period of six years. |
Returns | |||||||
Year | Large-Company Stocks | U.S. Treasury Bills |
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Year 1 | – | 15.39 | % | 7.43 | % | ||
Year 2 | – | 26.68 | 8.06 | ||||
Year 3 | 37.37 | 6.01 | |||||
Year 4 | 24.07 | 5.77 | |||||
Year 5 | – | 7.44 | 5.52 | ||||
Year 6 | 6.71 | 7.85 | |||||
Requirement 1: |
Calculate the arithmetic average returns for large-company stocks and T-bills over this time period. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percentage rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).) |
Arithmetic average returns | |
Large-company stock | % |
T-bills | % |
Requirement 2: |
Calculate the standard deviation of the returns for large-company stocks and T-bills over this time period. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percentage rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).) |
Standard deviation | |
Large-company stock | % |
T-bills | % |
Requirement 3: | |
Calculate the observed risk premium in each year for the large-company stocks versus the T-bills. | |
(a) |
What was the arithmetic average risk premium over this period? (Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).) |
Risk premium | % |
(b) |
What was the standard deviation of the risk premium over this period? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).) |
Risk premium standard deviation | % |