Country Risk Premium

An addition to the equity risk premium for companies exposed to a riskier market. Commonly built from the sovereign default spread scaled by the relative volatility of that country’s equity market against its bonds. The judgement call is whether to apply it by country of listing or by where revenue is actually earned; revenue exposure is the better answer and the harder one to compute.

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