Equity risk premium

WHAT IS THE RETURN to investing in the stock market? Can we predict future stock market returns? How have equities performed over the last two centuries? The authors in this volume are among the leading researchers in the study of these questions. This book draws upon their research on the stock market over the past two dozen years. It contains their major research articles on the equity risk premium and new contributions on measuring, forecasting, and timing stock market returns, together with new interpretive essays that explore critical issues and new research on the topic of stock market investing.

This book is aimed at all readers interested in understanding the empirical basis for the equity risk premium. Through the analysis and inter pretation of two scholars whose research contri butions have been key factors in the modern debate over stock market performance, this vol ume engages the reader in many of the key issues of importance to investors. How large is the premium? Is history a reliable guide to equity investing? How can the past be used to predict future equity returns? Does the equity premium reflect changes in fundamental values and cash flows of the market? Are global equity markets different from those in the United States? Do emerging markets offer higher or lower equity risk premia? The authors use the historical performance of the world's stock mar kets to address these issues.