Do financial markets properly reflect leverage? Unlike Gomes and Schmid (2010) who examine this question with a structural approach (using long-term monthly stock characteristics), my paper examines it with a quasi-experimental approach (using short-term a discrete event). After a firm has...

Do financial markets properly reflect leverage? Unlike Gomes and Schmid (2010) who examine this question with a structural approach (using long-term monthly stock characteristics), my paper examines it with a quasi-experimental approach (using short-term a discrete event). After a firm has...

As to the equity premium, the 2008 decline in the stock market has made economists mildly more bullish about future stock market rates of return. Typical expected equity premia are between 5% and 6% per year.As to policy, the recommended fiscal stimulus is around $700 billion. A large majority...

Our paper reexamines the forecasting regressions which predict annual aggregate stock market returns net of the risk-free rate with lagged aggregate dividend-yield ratios and dividend-price ratios. Prior to 1990, the conditional dividend yield could reliably outperform the historical equity...

Standard deviations and market-betas based on winsorized rates of return predict their own future realizations better than equivalents based on unwinsorized rates of returns. A good prescription is to winsorize rates of return around plus and minus 10- 15%, especially for samples of all CRSP...