The Equity Premium: It's Still a Puzzle

Journal of Economic Literature

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42-71

  Kocherlakota, Narayana R ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS   (United States)

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