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Excess Return on the Market Portfolio

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Excess return on the market portfolio
Difference between the return on the market portfolio and the riskless rate.

Excess Return on the Market Portfolio
The difference between the return on the market portfolio, a hypothetical portfolio of all securities, and the riskless rate of return, which is usually defined as the return on a 90-day Treasury bill. This may be taken as an indicator of how well (or poorly) the stock market is performing.


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t] is the excess return on the market portfolio in month t, [[alpha].
In a quite different modeling context, Campbell (1987) tests for reduced rank in a VAR model with bond excess returns of several maturities and the excess return on the market portfolio.
 
 
 
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