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The Equity Premium: It's Still a Puzzle [PDF]
, 1995 The paper examines the literature that attempts to resolve the equity premium and riskfree rate puzzles. It demonstrates that the puzzles will confront any model of asset prices that relies on three crucial assumptions: preferences have a particular parametric form, asset markets are complete, and asset trade is frictionless. A survey of the literature
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A Theory of the Boundaries of Banks With Implications for Financial Integration and Regulation
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a theory of the “boundary of the firm” that is tailored to banks, recognizing the relevance of deposit financing and interbank lending as a substitute for integration. It is based on a single inefficiency that has been at the core of banking theory: risk‐shifting incentives in the interest of bank shareholders.
Falko Fecht +2 more
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Affiliated Mutual Funds: Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand?
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In many countries, banks are the primary distribution channel for mutual funds and predominantly sell products issued by their own asset management divisions (“affiliated funds”). We examine how this lack of competition affects managerial activeness, fund performance, and investor outcomes.
Dominik Scheld +3 more
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A Reconsideration of the Equity Premium Puzzle [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 This paper develops a tractable asset pricing framework based on an Arrow Debreu economy with heterogeneous agents. The model re-casts a number of well known asset pricing relationships in terms of four underlying variables. The financial relationships studied here are the risk free rate, the market risk premium, a call option, the expected returns of ...
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Risk Perceptions and Corporate Financing Behavior
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a recently developed measure of financial market risk perceptions, we show that risk perceptions affect firm‐level corporate financing behavior. Firms tend to adjust their capital structures to cater to investors' appetite for risk. When perceived risks are low, firms tend to choose more leveraged capital structures to take advantage of ...
Youngmin Choi +2 more
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Residual Income Valuation and Stock Returns: Evidence From a Value‐to‐Price Investment Strategy*
Financial Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the accounting and asset pricing anomalies literature by investigating the performance of value‐to‐price (V/P) strategies, and the relationship between V/P ratio and various risk proxies. If the V/P ratio successfully predicts future returns at stock level, we hypothesize that portfolios based on the V/P ratio ...
Ahmad Haboub +2 more
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When the Fed Sneezes, What Stock Market Catches the Cold?
International Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper identifies three indicators of monetary policy surprises—unexpected changes in the federal funds rate, forward guidance and large‐scale asset purchases—and examines their effects on international stock prices using an intraday event study approach.
Carlo Rosa
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The Risk Premium for Equity: Implicatiosn for Resource Allocation, Welfare adn Policy [PDF]
Analysis of the equity premium puzzle has focused on private sector capital markets. The object of this paper is to consider the welfare and policy implications of each of the broad classes of explanations of the equity premium puzzle.
Grant, Simon, Quiggin, John
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Household portfolio allocation and stock market beliefs: Evidence from Japanese households
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract We analyze data from the Keio Household Panel Survey (KHPS) to investigate how individuals' beliefs about financial markets influence current and planned asset holdings. Our results reveal statistically and economically significant relations between specific beliefs and both present asset allocations and accumulation.
Raslan Alzuabi, Daniel Gray
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The equity premium puzzle : a survey of the literature [PDF]
, 2006 Cataloged from PDF version of article.This thesis is a survey of the literature on the equity premium puzzle. The puzzle was introduced in 1985 by Mehra and Prescott, who noted that the huge premium of equities over bonds is not consistent with the ...
Tözün, Bahar
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