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The Information Cliff

We characterize an information cliff in the stock market: the supply of information on aggregate cash flows drops precipitously beyond a one-year horizon, and so does analyst forecast accuracy. We use a generalized state-space model to explore the …

Rediscover Predictability: Information from the Relative Prices of Long-term and Short-term Dividends

The ratio of long- to short-term dividend prices, “price ratio” (prt), predicts annual market return with an out-of-sample R2 of 19%, subsuming the predictive power of price-dividend ratio (pdt). After controlling for prt, pdt