Hard Times
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Campbell, John Y., Stefano Giglio, and Christopher Polk. 2013. Hard Times. Review of Asset Pricing Studies 3, no. 1: 95–132.Abstract
We show that the stock market downturns of 2000–2002 and 2007–2009 have very different proximate causes. The early 2000s saw a large increase in the discount rates applied to profits by rational investors, while the late 2000s saw a decrease in rational expectations of future profits. We reach these conclusions by using a VAR model of aggregate stock returns and valuations, estimated both without restrictions and imposing the cross-sectional restrictions of the intertemporal capital asset pricing model (ICAPM). Our findings imply that the 2007–2009 downturn was particularly serious for rational long-term investors, whose losses were not offset by improving stock return forecasts as in the previous recession. (JEL G12, N22)Other Sources
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/polk/research/hardtimes.pdfhttp://scholar.harvard.edu/files/campbell/files/hardtimes20120827.pdf
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