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/U.K. (1629-1812), U.K. (1813-1870) and U.S. (1871-2015). We show that dividend yields are stationary and consistently forecast …
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rigorous and systematic research in the evaluation of out-of-sample model-based forecasts of China's real GDP growth and CPI … models when measured by root mean square errors, especially over long-run forecast horizons. The model is shown to be capable … of predicting turning points and to be usable for policy analysis under different scenarios. It predicts that China …
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This paper investigates the market reaction to the information released in security analyst reports. It shows that the market reacts significantly and positively to changes in recommendation levels, earnings forecasts, and price targets. While changes in price targets and earnings forecasts both...
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autocorrelated. We find that cross-border flows forecast both individual country equity market prices and associated US closed …-border inflows predict no change in the discount, but forecast positive changes in both net asset values and closed-end fund prices …
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We construct a price, dividend, and earnings series for the Industrials sector, the Utilities sector, and the Railroads sector from the beginning of the 1870s until the beginning of the year 2013 from primary sources. To infer about mispricings in the sector markets over more than a century, we...
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We decompose stock returns into components attributable to tangible and intangible information. A firm's tangible return is the component of its return attributable to fundamental accounting-performance information, and its intangible return is the component which is orthogonal to this...
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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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We propose forecasting separately the three components of stock market returns: dividend yield, earnings growth, and price-earnings ratio growth. We obtain out-of-sample R-square coefficients (relative to the historical mean) of nearly 1.6% with monthly data and 16.7% with yearly data using the...
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expectations are, on average, biased upwards, and the bias increases in the forecast horizon. These biases are associated with …
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This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in …
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