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Demographics and US Stock Market Fluctuations

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  • Carlo A. Favero
  • Andrea Tamoni

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This article illustrates how the information component determining long-horizon US stock market returns can be related to a demographic variable, MY the ratio of middle-aged to young adults. In fact, MY can be seen as the major determinants of a slowly evolving time-varying mean of the dividend/price ratio. A forecasting model for stock market returns over a century of US annual data that uses as predictors the dividend/price ratio and MY overcomes all the statistical difficulties related to the high persistence of the dividend/price ratio and performs very well in forecasting long-horizon stock market returns. Moreover, the use of demographic variables as a predictor for long-run stock market returns delivers a steeply downward sloping term structure of stock market risk. (JEL codes: G17, C53, E44) Copyright The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com, Oxford University Press.

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  • Carlo A. Favero & Andrea Tamoni, 2011. "Demographics and US Stock Market Fluctuations ," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group, vol. 57(1), pages 25-43, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cesifo:v:57:y:2011:i:1:p:25-43
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    JEL classification:

    • G17 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Financial Forecasting and Simulation
    • C53 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Forecasting and Prediction Models; Simulation Methods
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

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