Donadelli, Michael; Prosperi, Lorenzo - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 2, pp. 177-213
Standard consumption-based models typically fail in pricing asset returns. In a famous seminal paper, Mehra and Prescott (1985), using a standard consumption model, prove the presence of a puzzle (i.e. equity premium puzzle). The recent financial literature still has to provide a convincing...