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