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Exact Solutions for Expected Rates of Return Under Markov Regime Switching: Implications for the Equity Premium Puzzle

Andrew B. Abel

NBER Working Paper No. 4110*
Issued in June 1992
NBER Program(s):   AP

This paper derives simple closed-form solutions for expected rates of return on stocks and riskless one-period bills under the assumption that shocks to the growth rates of consumption and dividends are generated by a Markov regime-switching process. These closed-form solutions are used to show that the Markov regime-switching process exacerbates the equity premium puzzle and the risk-free rate puzzle. Three empirical examples illustrate the magnitude of the effects of Markov regime switching on equilibrium expected returns.

*Published: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 26, 3, August 1994, Part I), pp. 345- 361

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