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Price-Dividend Ratio Factor Proxies for Long-Run Risks

Price-Dividend Ratio Factor Proxies for Long-Run Risks We show that several asset pricing models that rely on long-run risks imply that the state of the economy can be captured by factors derived from the price-dividend ratios of stock portfolios. We find two factors with small growth and large value tilts are important for this purpose, thereby relating the Fama-French model and the Bansal-Yaron and Merton intertemporal asset pricing models. As predicted by the model, these price-dividend ratio factors track consumption volatility and predict future consumption and stock dividends, and the covariance of returns with their innovations explains the cross-section of average returns of several stock portfolios. (JEL G19) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Review of Asset Pricing Studies Oxford University Press

Price-Dividend Ratio Factor Proxies for Long-Run Risks

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Oxford University Press
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The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com
ISSN
2045-9920
eISSN
2045-9939
DOI
10.1093/rapstu/rav003
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Abstract

We show that several asset pricing models that rely on long-run risks imply that the state of the economy can be captured by factors derived from the price-dividend ratios of stock portfolios. We find two factors with small growth and large value tilts are important for this purpose, thereby relating the Fama-French model and the Bansal-Yaron and Merton intertemporal asset pricing models. As predicted by the model, these price-dividend ratio factors track consumption volatility and predict future consumption and stock dividends, and the covariance of returns with their innovations explains the cross-section of average returns of several stock portfolios. (JEL G19)

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The Review of Asset Pricing StudiesOxford University Press

Published: Jun 24, 2015

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