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Changes in the risk structure of stock returns: Consumer Confidence and the dotcom bubble

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  • Lawrence Leger
  • Vitor Leone

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Changes in the risk structure of stock returns may sometimes be very revealing. We examine economic variables that help explain principal components in UK stock returns, 01/1985 to 12/2001. The loading pattern on explanatory variables for the first component in a ‘bubble’ period is distinctive and consistent with a bubble/crash market. The second component shows a loading pattern on a Consumer Confidence variable in a pre‐bubble period only. We observe apparently systematic changes in the structure of risk, and conjecture that Consumer Confidence captures a change in market sentiment that could be a signal for the evolution of stock prices.

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  • Lawrence Leger & Vitor Leone, 2008. "Changes in the risk structure of stock returns: Consumer Confidence and the dotcom bubble," Review of Financial Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 17(3), pages 228-244, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:revfec:v:17:y:2008:i:3:p:228-244
    DOI: 10.1016/j.rfe.2007.08.001
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