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This paper analyzes whether commodity futures prices traded in the United States reveal information relevant to stock prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive predictive powers of overnight futures returns of...
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We use data on Indian stock portfolios to show that return heterogeneity is the primary contributor to increasing inequality of wealth held in risky assets by Indian individual investors. Return heterogeneity increases equity wealth inequality through two main channels, both of which are related...
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In this paper, we take a critical look at the relationship between the value of capital stock in the Indian corporate sector and the valuation of claims to this capital stock in capital markets. We address the question of whether Indian equity valuations over the period 1991- 2008 are consistent...
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impact of time-varying inflation. Consistent with the Modigliani-Cohn hypothesis, we find that the level of inflation …
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between loose monetary policy, low inflation, and easy bank credit with … policy, low inflation, and bank credit has on house, stock and commodity prices. We review the historical narratives on asset … inflation or "easy" credit …
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and bond returns into changes in expectations of future stock dividends, inflation, short-term real interest rates, and … about future excess stock returns, while excess 10-year bond returns are driven largely by news about future inflation. Real …
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inflation.This paper considers an alternative explanation: a substantial increase in the riskiness of capital investments. We … effects of increase in the mean and variance of the inflation rate, and a decline in firms' expected return on capital …
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This paper discusses a crucial cause of the failure of share prices to rise during a decade of substantial inflation … indicates that this inverse relation between higher inflation and lower share prices during the past decade was not due to … chance or to other unrelated economic events. On the contrary, an important adverse effect of increased inflation on share …
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The effects of inflation adjustments of corporate earnings on market prices were tested by cross section regressions of … negligible. The implication of the results is that market investors use a range of adjustments for the effects of inflation which … the later period 1972-76 than in the earlier period 1966-71. This seemed inconsistent with the higher inflation rates in …
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We develop an asset-pricing model with endogenous corporate policies that explains how inflation jointly impacts real … when inflation falls. An increase in inflation has opposite effects, but with smaller magnitudes. In the cross section, the … model predicts the negative impact of inflation on real equity values is stronger for low leverage firms. We find empirical …
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