firm characteristics - Tobin's Q, past investment, earnings-price ratios, market betas, and idiosyncratic volatility of … returns by aggregate investment and valuation ratios; and v) a downward sloping term structure of risk premia for dividend … stock returns - help predict the share of growth opportunities in the firm's market value, and are therefore correlated with …

This paper theoretically investigates the effect of uncertainty about future investment on expected stock returns … explain the value premium. Second, we investigate how uncertainty about investment affects expected stock returns. Based on … the closed-form solution in our framework, we suggest that less uncertainty about investment induces lower expected stock …