Morck, Randall; Yeung, Bernard; Zhang, Lu Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
forward-looking stock returns before affecting economic growth. Consistent with most such shocks from 1947 to 2020 enhancing … productivity, increased idiosyncratic stock return variation forecasts next-quarter real GDP growth, industrial production growth …, and consumption growth both in-sample and out-of-sample. These effects persist after controlling for other leading …