What Does the Equity Premium Mean?

Simon Grant and John Quiggin ()
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Simon Grant: Rice University

The Economists' Voice, 2005, vol. 2, issue 4

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: E62 H55 G12; equity premium puzzle; resource allocation; welfare economics; public policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005

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