Equity Premium Puzzle

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf economic puzzle
gptkbp:describes the observed difference between returns on stocks and government bonds
gptkbp:field finance
macroeconomics
gptkbp:firstPublished 1985
gptkbp:formedBy gptkb:Edward_Prescott
gptkb:Rajnish_Mehra
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Equity Premium Puzzle
gptkbp:influenced behavioral finance
asset pricing research
gptkbp:problemStatement Standard economic models cannot explain the large historical equity premium with reasonable levels of risk aversion.
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:stock_market_index
asset pricing
government bonds
risk aversion
expected returns
consumption-based asset pricing model
gptkbp:solvedBy gptkb:economic_policy
census
taxation
corporate governance
globalization
ambiguity aversion
transaction costs
institutional investors
survivorship bias
political risk
financial innovation
market segmentation
technological change
social interactions
overconfidence
habit formation
institutional constraints
incomplete markets
idiosyncratic risk
market frictions
borrowing constraints
heterogeneous agents
liquidity constraints
behavioral explanations
consumption risk
fat tails in return distributions
income risk
information frictions
learning and belief updating
limited stock market participation
long-run risks
model misspecification
myopic loss aversion
non-expected utility preferences
psychological biases
rare disasters
regulatory factors
time-varying risk aversion
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Rajnish_Mehra
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6