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Idiosyncrasy as a Leading Indicator
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2022
Abstract
Disequilibrating macro shocks affect different firms’ prospects differently, increasing idiosyncratic variation in forward-looking stock returns before affecting economic growth. Consistent with most such shocks from 1947 to 2020 enhancing productivity, increased idiosyncratic stock return variation forecasts next-quarter real GDP growth, industrial production growth, and consumption growth both in-sample and out-of-sample. These effects persist after controlling for other leading economic indicators.
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- Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 58 , Issue 8 , December 2023 , pp. 3547 - 3576
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- © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Footnotes
We thank Jennifer Conrad (the editor), Gill Segal (the referee), and David Vines for their helpful comments and suggestions.
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