Long-term discount rate is different from short-term expected return. Long-term discount rate determines the level of equity valuation, whereas short-term return reflects the change in valuation. Long-term discount rate is relevant to corporate managers as it summarizes a firm's financing cost,...

The literature usually ascribes time-variation in discount rates to time-variation in the risk premium. This is probably also true over the short- and medium term. This paper set out to explore time-variation in investors required return over the longer term and the resulting impact on equity...