“…In fact, we interviewed 16 scholars with a minimum of seven years of teaching and research in the fields of economics and finance, 5 industry managers with a minimum of 5 years in seniority position, and 5 professional stock traders. Based on the results of our interviews, the findings of recent studies in the fields of economics and finance ( Ang and Bekaert, 2007 ; Barinov et al., 2018 ; Bernanke and Gertler, 1999 ; Boons, 2016 ; Campbell and Yogo, 2006 ; Dai and Zhou, 2020 ; Dai and Zhu, 2020 ; Goyal and Welch, 2008 ; Gungor and Luger, 2019 ; Kroencke, 2017 ; Lee, 2019 ), and the availability of the related data, our study proposed adding three macroeconomic determinants/risks (the U.S. prime rate, the U.S. government long-term bond rate, and the exchange rate of USD/EUR) to the original CAPM to explain the nexus between the risks and the U.S. stock returns. These macroeconomic determinants are proxies for the macroeconomic state variables.…”