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Trendy Business Cycles and Asset Prices

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  • Jesse Davis
  • Gill Segal

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The data-generating process underlying productivity includes both trend and business cycle shocks, generating counterfactuals for prices under full information. In practice, agents’ inability to immediately distinguish between the two shocks creates “rational confusion”: each shock inherits properties of its counterpart. This confusion magnifies the perceived share of permanent shocks and implies that, contrary to canonical frameworks, transitory shocks are the main driver of long-run risk through trendy business cycles. With learning, the equity premium turns positive, while investment and valuation ratios become procyclical, as in the data. Consequently, rational confusion is key for reconciling disciplined macro-dynamics with equilibriumAuthors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.

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  • Jesse Davis & Gill Segal, 2023. "Trendy Business Cycles and Asset Prices," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 36(6), pages 2509-2570.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rfinst:v:36:y:2023:i:6:p:2509-2570.
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    JEL classification:

    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • D5 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium

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