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On the economic link between asset prices and real activity

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10016/12672
ISSN: 0306-686X (print)
ISSN: 1468-5957 (online)
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.00659.x
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2007-07
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Wiley-Blackwell
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This paper presents a model linking two financial markets (stocks and bonds) with real business cycle, in the framework of the Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model with Generalized Isoelastic Preferences. Besides interest rate term spread, the model includes a new variable to forecast economic activity: stock market term spread. This is the slope of expected stock market returns. The empirical evidence documented in this paper suggests systematic relationships between business cycle’s state and the shapes of two yield curves (interest rates and expected stock returns). Results are robust to changes in measures of economic growth, stock prices, interest rates and expectations generating mechanisms.
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Stock market, Interest rates, Economic growth, Term structure
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Journal of business finance & accounting, vol. 34, n. 5/6, , jun./jul. 2007, pp. 889-916
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