This article contributes to the financial literature by investigating the formation of the international stock risk premium in emerging market zones. Our results from the estimation of a dynamic augmented capital asset pricing model show that the currency risk premium is the most important...

This paper examines the link between research and development (R&D) and idiosyncratic volatility for a panel of large French quoted companies. We investigate whether the intensity of R&D investment makes the firm’s stocks riskier. We suggest that R&D activities generate information asymmetry...