Handbook of the Equity Risk Premium ( Handbooks in Finance )

Publication series :Handbooks in Finance

Author: Mehra   Rajnish;Arrow   Kenneth J.;Constantinides   G.  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 2011

E-ISBN: 9780080555850

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780444508997

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780444508997

Subject: F2 Economic Planning and Management;F8 Finances;F83 financial, banks

Language: ENG

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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

Front Cover

pp.:  1 – 4

Copyright Page

pp.:  5 – 8

Contents

pp.:  8 – 18

List of Contributors

pp.:  18 – 20

Preface

pp.:  20 – 24

Introduction to the Series

pp.:  24 – 26

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

pp.:  440 – 488

Discussion: Urban J. Jermann (Wharton)

pp.:  488 – 492

Chapter 11. The Worldwide Equity Premium: A Smaller Puzzle

pp.:  492 – 530

Appendix 1: Decomposition of the Equity Premium

pp.:  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

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