Existing accounting-based forecasting models of earnings either do not fully consider information that is contained in stock prices or use an ad hoc specification that is not based on rigorous valuation theory. In this paper, we develop an earnings forecasting model built on the theoretical...

In this paper, we employ the earnings model developed in Ashton and Wang (2013) to forecast the one- to three-year ahead earnings of individual companies. We find that the model produces forecasts of future earnings that are less biased and more informative than both the consensus analysts'...

We investigate the predictability of the G10 currencies with respect to lagged currency returns from the perspective of a U.S. investor, using the maximally predictable portfolio (MPP) approach of Lo and MacKinlay (1997). Out-of-sample, the MPP yields a higher Sharpe ratio, higher cumulative...