Valuation Ratios and the Long-Run Stock Market Outlook: An Update / John Y. Campbell, Robert J. Shiller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, John Y.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Shiller, Robert J.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8221.

NBER working paper series no. w8221

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Valuation Ratios and the Long-Run Stock Market Outlook

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2001.

Summary:

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 these ratios should be useful in forecasting future dividend growth, future earnings growth, or future productivity growth. We conclude that, overall, the ratios do poorly in forecasting any of these. Rather, the ratios appear to be useful primarily in forecasting future stock price changes, contrary to the simple efficient-markets models. This paper is an update of our earlier paper (1998), to take account of the remarkable behavior of the stock market in the closing years of the twentieth century.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2001.