This paper presents long time series of stock and bond returns for Denmark <p> from 1922 to 1999. Average stock returns are low in an international context, but <p> returns (and volatility) have increased sharply since 1983 which may be explained by <p> major changes in economic policy and...</p></p></p>

Dette papir beskriver afkast og risici ved investering i det danske aktiemarked over <p> en lang historisk periode. Det er almindeligt kendt, at aktier giver et højt gennemsnitligt afkast <p> sammenlignet med obligationer mod til gengæld at være mere risikable på kort sigt. Derimod er <p> det mere...</p></p></p>

We estimate a well-specified two-state regime-switching model for Danish stock returns. The <p> model identifies two regimes which have low return-low volatility and high return-high <p> volatility, respectively. The low return-low volatility regime dominated, except in a few, short <p> episodes, until...</p></p></p>

Using annual data over the post-World War I-period, we estimate a fundamentals-based <p> empirical model for the dividend-price ratio of Danish stocks. The key fundamentals-variable <p> is a time-varying discount rate, decomposed into time-varying measures for the growth-adjusted <p> real interest rate...</p></p></p>

This paper applies six recently developed nonparametric tests of serial independence <p> to monthly US stock returns. Findings of previous studies based on the BDS test are sup-ported <p> since most of the new tests also reject the random walk hypothesis. Furthermore, <p> power properties of the new...</p></p></p>