Regime switching in stock market returns
An extension of Hamilton's Markov switching techniques (Hamilton, J. B., 1989, A new approach to the economic analysis of nonstationary time series and the business cycle, Econometrica, 57, 357-84) is used to describe and analyse stock market returns. Using new tests, very strong evidence is found for switching behaviour. A major innovation is to use a multivariate specification that allows examination of whether the price/dividend ratio has marginal predictive power for stock market returns after accounting for state-dependent switching. We find strong evidence of predictability. The response of returns to the past price/dividend ratio is strongly asymmetric - about four times larger in the low-return state than in the high-return state. A second innovationis to allow the probability of transitions from one regime to another to depend on economic variables; again there is an asymmetric response to the past price/dividend ratio.
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1997
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Authors: | Schaller, Huntley ; Norden, Simon Van |
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Applied Financial Economics. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0960-3107. - Vol. 7.1997, 2, p. 177-191
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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