Market Risk Premium Used in 82 Countries in 2012: A Survey with 7,192 Answers

This paper contains the statistics on the equity premium, or market risk premium (MRP), used in 2012 for 82 countries. We got answers for 93 countries, but we only report the results for 82 countries with more than five answers. <p>Most previous surveys have been interested in the expected MRP, but this survey asks about the required MRP. The paper also contains the references used to justify the MRP, comments from persons that do not use MRP, and comments from persons that do use MRP.