Bøker av Rajnish Mehra

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.

Reviews the literature on this phenomenon from the original papers by Mehra and Prescott to the present. The author shows that the equity premium - the return earned by a broad market index in excess of that earned by a relatively risk-free security - is not a premium for bearing non-diversifiable risk.