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The use of price-earnings ratios and dividend-price ratios as forecasting variables for the stock market is examined using aggregate annual US data 1871 to 2000 and aggregate quarterly data for twelve countries since 1970. Various simple efficient-markets models of financial markets imply that...
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This chapter reviews the behavior of financial asset prices in relation to consumption. The chapter lists some important stylized facts that characterize US data, and relates them to recent developments in equilibrium asset pricing theory. Data from other countries are examined to see which...
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We show that the stock market downturns of 2000-2002 and 2007-2009 have very different proximate causes. The early 2000's saw a large increase in the discount rates applied to profits by rational investors, while the late 2000's saw a decrease in rational expectations of future profits. We reach...
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We show that the stock market downturns of 2000-2002 and 2007-2009 have very different proximate causes. The early 2000's saw a large increase in the discount rates applied to profits by rational investors, while the late 2000's saw a decrease in rational expectations of future profits. We reach...
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Over the period 1975 to 2005, the US dollar (particularly in relation to the Canadian dollar) and the euro and Swiss franc (particularly in the second half of the period) have moved against world equity markets. Thus these currencies should be attractive to risk-minimizing global equity...
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The cash flows of growth stocks are particularly sensitive to temporary movements in aggregate stock prices (driven by … movements in the equity risk premium), while the cash flows of value stocks are particularly sensitive to permanent movements in … aggregate stock prices (driven by market-wide shocks to cash flows.) Thus the high betas of growth stocks with the market …
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find that value stocks and small stocks have considerably higher cash-flow betas than growth stocks and large stocks, and … growth stocks and high-past-beta stocks have predominantly good betas with low risk prices. …
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We empirically decompose the S&P 500's dividend yield into (1) a rational forecast of long-run real dividend growth, (2) the subjectively expected risk premium, and (3) residual mispricing attributed to the market's forecast of dividend growth deviating from the rational forecast. Modigliani and...
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The cash flows of growth stocks are particularly sensitive to temporary movements in aggregate stock prices (driven by … movements in the equity risk premium), while the cash flows of value stocks are particularly sensitive to permanent movements in … aggregate stock prices (driven by market-wide shocks to cash flows.) Thus the high betas of growth stocks with the market …
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;goodquot; varieties. Empirically, we find that value stocks and small stocks have considerably higher cash-flow betas than growth stocks … and large stocks, and this can explain their higher average returns. The poor performance of the CAPMsince 1963 is … explained by the fact that growth stocks and high-past-beta stocks have predominantly good betas with low risk prices …
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