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What Does the Equity Premium Mean?

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Simon Grant (Rice University)
John Quiggin (University of Queensland)

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Simon Grant and John Quiggin argue that taking the equity premium seriously---the well-known fact that the average annual historical return of stocks is seven times that of government bonds and other debt---has many implications, the most robust of which is that recessions are extremely costly even if they don't lower average consumption and that macroeconomic stabilization policies are more important than has been thought.

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Article provided by Berkeley Electronic Press in its journal The Economists' Voice.

Volume (Year): 2 (2005)
Issue (Month): 4 ()
Pages: 2
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  1. Simon Grant & John Quiggin, 2004. "Noise Trader Risk and the Welfare Effects of Privatization," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 5(9), pages 1-8. [Downloadable!]
  2. Grant, S. & Quiggin, J., 1999. "The Risk Premium for Equity: Implications for Clinton's Proposed Diversification of the Social Security Trust Fund," Papers 368, Australian National University - Department of Economics.
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  3. John Y. Campbell & John H. Cochrane, 1995. "By Force of Habit: A Consumption-Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior," NBER Working Papers 4995, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Arrow, Kenneth J & Lind, Robert C, 1970. "Uncertainty and the Evaluation of Public Investment Decisions," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 60(3), pages 364-78, June.
  5. Simon Grant & John Quiggin, 2003. "Public Investment and the Risk Premium for Equity," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 70(277), pages 1-18, February.
  6. David Miles, . "Testing for short-termism in the UK stock market," Bank of England working papers 4, Bank of England.
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  7. Simon Grant & John Quiggin, 2004. "The risk premium for equity: implications for resource allocation, welfare and policy," Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers WPR04_8, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Mehra, Rajnish & Prescott, Edward C., 1985. "The equity premium: A puzzle," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(2), pages 145-161, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  9. Andrew Atkeson & Christopher Phelan, 1994. "Reconsidering the Costs of Business Cycles with Incomplete Markets," NBER Working Papers 4719, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  10. Mankiw, N. Gregory, 1986. "The equity premium and the concentration of aggregate shocks," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 17(1), pages 211-219, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  11. Rajnish Mehra & Edward C. Prescott, 2003. "The Equity Premium in Retrospect," NBER Working Papers 9525, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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