# Professor Aswath Damodaran's research on equity risk premiums is cited

1 Faculty News May 21, 2019 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-central-bank-shows-how-not-to-buy-stocks-11558433503) -- "But at 6.94%, Japan’s premium remains stubbornly above the U.S.’s 5.96%—with the gap little changed in six years—according to [Aswath Damodaran](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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