The Equity Premium Puzzle post the Financial Crisis
The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at the equity premium puzzle which is one of the most intriguing puzzles in economics and has been challenging researchers for the last 25 years since Mehra and Prescott first introduced the puzzle. It refers to the empirical fact that risky equity has been outperforming default free debt with about 6 percentage points for the U.S. market. The fac