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Permanent, Temporary, and Non-Fundamental Components of Stock Prices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

Bong-Soo Lee
Bong-Soo Lee
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Department of Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-6282.
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Abstract

This paper identifies various components of stock prices and examines the response of stock prices to different types of shocks: permanent and temporary changes in earnings and dividends, changes in discount factors, and non-fundamental factors. The analysis is conducted in a log-linear structural VAR framework. I find that about half of the yearly variation in prices is not related to either earnings or dividend changes. Time-varying interest rates do not help explain the remaining price movements. However, time-varying excess stock returns (i.e., risk premiums) account for much of the remaining variation in stock prices, in particular, in the postwar period. As a result, the deviation of stock prices from these fundamentals reduces to about 10% of stock price movements and tends to persist for a while before it declines eventually. This finding seems more compatible with a fad rather than a bubble interpretation.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 1998 , pp. 1 - 32
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1998

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