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The Declining U.S. Equity Premium / Ravi Jagannathan, Ellen R. McGrattan, Anna Scherbina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jagannathan, Ravi.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8172.
- NBER working paper series no. w8172
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2001.
- Summary:
- This study demonstrates that the U.S. equity premium has declined significantly during the last three decades. The study calculates the equity premium using a variation of a formula in the classic Gordon stock valuation model. The calculation includes the bond yield, the stock dividend yield, and the expected dividend growth rate, which in this formulation can change over time. The study calculates the premium for several measures of the aggregate U.S. stock portfolio and several assumptions about bond yields and stock dividends and gets basically the same result. The premium averaged about 7 percentage points during 1926 70 and only about 0.7 of a percentage point after that. This result is shown to be reasonable by demonstrating the roughly equal returns that investments in stocks and consol bonds of the same duration would have earned between 1982 and 1999, years when the equity premium is estimated to have been zero.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2001.
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