Assume these are the stock market and Treasury bill returns for a 5-year period in the attached image: A. What was the risk premium on common stock in each year? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) Risk Premium 2013 % 2014 % 2015 % 2016 % 2017 % b. What was the average risk premium? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) c. What was the standard deviation of the risk premium? (Ignore that the estimation is from a sample of data.) (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)
Assume these are the stock market and Treasury bill returns for a 5-year period in the attached image:
A. What was the risk premium on common stock in each year? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)
Risk Premium
2013 %
2014 %
2015 %
2016 %
2017 %
b. What was the average risk premium? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)
c. What was the standard deviation of the risk premium? (Ignore that the estimation is from a sample of data.) (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)
![Stock Market T-Bill Return
Year
Return (%)
(%)
2013
35.90
0.21
2014
15.20
0.21
2015
-5.10
0.21
2016
16.90
0.08
2017
25.90
0.10](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F3a70920e-aa45-4eb5-b641-140e7ebb9cdb%2Fa1c848d8-ffbb-4ae7-a775-f0a66e9d5503%2Fmk4gcqm_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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The risk premium of each stock is computed as follows:
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