Purpose: Modelling security prices seem to be an ending debate in finance literature due to no clear consensus on behavioral patterns, Knowledge of stock price movement has always been an important source of information that is much needed in asset pricing and trading strategies, The aim of this...

The article presents a historical review of the literature related to the empirical problem of excessive risk premium. The risk premium (the difference between the return on equities and risk-free rate) observed in financial markets cannot be reconciled with theoretical models of financial...