Long-run bulls and bears

Rui Albuquerque, Martin Eichenbaum, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Sergio Rebelo*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A central challenge in asset pricing is the weak connection between stock returns and observable economic fundamentals. We provide evidence that this connection is stronger than previously thought. We use a modified version of the Bry-Boschan algorithm to identify long-run swings in the stock market. We call these swings long-run bull and bear episodes. We find that there is a high correlation between stock returns and fundamentals across bull and bear episodes. This correlation is much higher than the analogous time-series correlations. We show that several asset pricing models cannot simultaneously account for the low time-series and high episode correlations.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)S21-S36
JournalJournal of Monetary Economics
Volume76
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2015

Funding

We thank Gideon Bornstein, Benjamin Johannsen, and Victor Luo for superb research assistance. We benefited from the comments of Bernard Dumas and other participants in the Journal of Monetary Economics-Swiss National Bank-Study Center Gerzensee on Asset Price Fluctuations and Economic Policy. Albuquerque thanks the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology-FCT for support under the Grant PTDC/IIM-FIN/2977/2014 .

Keywords

  • Stock market returns

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Finance
  • Economics and Econometrics

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