Description
Edited by Rajnish Mehra, this volume focuses on the equity risk premium puzzle, a term coined by Mehra and Prescott in 1985 which encompasses a number of empirical regularities in the prices of capital assets that are at odds with the predictions of standard economic theory.
Chapter
Chapter 2. Risk-Based Explanations of the Equity Premium
pp.:
62 – 126
Chapter 3. Non-Risk-based Explanations of the Equity Premium
pp.:
126 – 142
Chapter 4. Equity Premia with Benchmark Levels of Consumption: Closed-Form Results
pp.:
142 – 183
Discussion: Francisco Gomes (LBS)
pp.:
183 – 192
Chapter 5. Long-Run Risks and Risk Compensation in Equity Markets
pp.:
192 – 219
Discussion: John C. Heaton (Chicago)
pp.:
219 – 224
Chapter 6. The Loss Aversion/Narrow Framing Approach to the Equity Premium Puzzle
pp.:
224 – 255
Discussion: Xavier Gabaix (New York)
pp.:
255 – 260
Discussion: Ravi Jagannathan (Northwestern)
pp.:
260 – 262
Chapter 7. Financial Markets and the Real Economy
pp.:
262 – 351
Discussion: Lars Peter Hansen (Chicago)
pp.:
351 – 356
Chapter 8. Understanding the Equity Risk Premium Puzzle
pp.:
356 – 385
Discussion: Hanno Lustig (UCLA)
pp.:
385 – 402
Chapter 9. Cash Flow Risk, Discounting Risk, and the Equity Premium Puzzle
pp.:
402 – 428
Discussion: Vito D. Gala (LBS)
pp.:
428 – 434
Discussion: Lior Menzly (Proxima)
pp.:
434 – 440
Chapter 10. Distribution Risk and Equity Returns
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440 – 488
Discussion: Urban J. Jermann (Wharton)
pp.:
488 – 492
Chapter 11. The Worldwide Equity Premium: A Smaller Puzzle
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492 – 530
Appendix 1: Decomposition of the Equity Premium
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530 – 532
Appendix 2: Data Sources for the DMS Database
pp.:
532 – 540
Chapter 12. History and the Equity Risk Premium
pp.:
540 – 555
Discussion: Stephen F. LeRoy (UCSB)
pp.:
555 – 560
Chapter 13. Can Heterogeneity, Undiversified Risk, and Trading Frictions Solve the Equity Premium Puzzle
pp.:
560 – 583
Discussion: Kjetil Storesletten (U Oslo)
pp.:
583 – 590
Chapter 14. Asset Prices and Intergenerational Risk Sharing: The Role of Idiosyncratic Earnings Shocks
pp.:
590 – 612
A. Calibration Appendix
pp.:
612 – 615
B. Asset Pricing
pp.:
615 – 616
Discussion: Darrell Duffie (Stanford)
pp.:
616 – 636