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  • The Dog That Did Not Bark: ...
    Cochrane, John H.

    Review of financial studies/˜The œReview of financial studies, 07/2008, Letnik: 21, Številka: 4
    Journal Article

    If returns are not predictable, dividend growth must be predictable, to generate the observed variation in divided yields. I find that the absence of dividend growth predictability gives stronger evidence than does the presence of return predictability. Long-horizon return forecasts give the same strong evidence. These tests exploit the negative correlation of return forecasts with dividend-yield autocorrelation across samples, together with sensible upper bounds on dividend-yield autocorrelation, to deliver more powerful statistics. I reconcile my findings with the literature that finds poor power in long-horizon return forecasts, and with the literature that notes the poor out-of-sample R² of return-forecasting regressions.