The Value Premium - Is the Failure To Explain it as a Compensation for Risk a Consequense of Mis-specified Models?
Many studies have tried to explain the stock market value premium identified by Fama and French and Rosenberg, Reid and Lanstein. To the proponents of conventional asset pricing theory the value premium, measured by HmL (high book-to-market minus low book-to-market), is a bit of a dilemma. This is due to that the value of growth stocks depend more on business cycles than on value stocks, whose val