We present evidence that the equity premium and the premium of value stocks over growth stocks are explained in the 1982 1996 period with a stochastic discount factor (SDF) calculated as the weighted average of individual households' marginal rate of substitution with low and economically...

The Euler equations of consumption are tested on the household consumption of non-durables and services, reconstructed from the CEX database. The estimated relative risk aversion coefficient of the representative household decreases, and the estimated unexplained mean equity premium decreases,...

We assemble a monthly dataset of U.S. security prices between 1801 and 1926 and, both in and out of sample, test price-return momentum strategies discovered in the post-1927 data. The pre-1927 momentum profits remain positive and statistically significant. Additional time-series data strengthen...