This paper documents that the increase in public debt can lead to higher dividend payout to shareholders, which … higher public debt-to-GDP ratio can predict both higher dividend growth and higher stock returns, and the predicted changes … common component among stock returns and dividend growth. We argue that i) public debt can drive the co-movement among …

All variations in price-dividend ratios result from either movements in expected returns or expected dividend growth … movements in prices. I derive closed-form solutions for the relation between the persistency of dividend growth rates and the … ability of price-dividend ratios to forecast future dividends. For a constant risk premium, it is possible to match the low …

finance nor to traditional economical theories? Inspired by rational choice theory, this paper tries to explore this largely …

Macroeconomic Theory and historical evidence suggest that bond prices help cause long-run convergence between stock …

timely measures of uncertainty and expected growth across horizons. Asset prices, such as dividend futures and index options … by using new data on the prices of options on index-level dividends, from which we can compute implied dividend … about dividends. We construct a term structure of implied dividend volatilities that characterizes how uncertainty varies …