We use a stock-market game and predictions of examination marks to examine differences between overconfidence and biased self-attribution (BSA) of British and Asian students. Although different overconfidence measures show little correlation, Asians are consistently more overconfident than the...

This paper uses Campbell and Vuolteenaho's (2004a,b) procedure to provide evidence on the source of the positive correlation between the US dividend yield and expected inflation. It finds that results derived from the procedure are sensitive to the data period but that Chen and Zhao's (2009)...

We propose a direct test of the explanation by Modigliani and Cohn (MC) for the positive correlation between inflation and equity values--that it results from investors' money illusion. This explanation, unlike its main rivals, suggests that because in inflationary periods dividends will, on...

We report evidence that the UK dividend yield and expected inflation are positively correlated from 1962 to 1997, but negatively correlated subsequently. Using a commonly used VAR (vector auto-regression)-based procedure we find strong evidence that the positive correlation is caused both by...