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 …
I document a robust pattern in how Treasury market participants' yield curve expectations respond to new information: forecasts for short-term rates underreact to news while forecasts for long-term rates overreact. I propose a new explanation of this …
The ratio of long- to short-term dividend prices, “price ratio” ($pr_t$), predicts annual market return with an out-of-sample $R^2$ of 19%, subsuming the predictive power of price-dividend ratio ($pd_t$). After controlling for $pr_t$, $pd_t$ …