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I establish that inflation risk is priced in the cross section of stock returns: Stocks that have low returns during … inflationary times command a risk premium. I estimate a market price of inflation risk that is comparable in magnitude to the price … of risk for the aggregate market. Inflation is therefore a key determinant of risk in the cross section of stocks. The …
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We study investors' perceptions of inflation through the lens of a high-frequency event study and document that they … have a stagflationary view of the world. In response to higher-than-expected inflation, investors expect firms' nominal … even decline, with increases in nominal yields offset by larger increases in inflation expectations. Consistent with a …
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value of German assets and the volatility of returns on them. Instead, it was inflation (and the fear of it) that is largely …
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We study investors' perceptions of inflation through the lens of a high-frequency event study and document that they … have a stagflationary view of the world. In response to higher-than-expected inflation, investors expect firms' nominal … even decline, with increases in nominal yields offset by larger increases in inflation expectations. Consistent with a …
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We study how investors respond to inflation combining a customized survey experiment with trading data at a time of … historically high inflation. Investors' beliefs about the stock return-inflation relation are very heterogeneous in the cross … section and on average too optimistic. Moreover, many investors appear unaware of inflation-hedging strategies despite being …
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I provide empirical evidence indicating that inflation risk is time-varying and priced in the cross-section of … individual stocks in the U.S. and UK equity markets. I establish that the way inflation risk is priced in equity markets is … closely related to the cyclicality of inflation. I show that the market price of inflation shocks is positive (negative) in …
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that generate unacceptable levels of inflation. …
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For decades, the academic literature has focused on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey … models of forecasting inflation, the data are low frequency measures which appear anachronistic in the modern era of high … frequency and real-time data. I present a collection of 37 different measures of inflation expectations, including many …
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In this paper, we show that traditional comparisons of Mean Squared Prediction Error (MSPE) between two competing forecasts may be highly controversial. This is so because when some specific conditions of efficiency are not met, the forecast displaying the lowest MSPE will also display the...
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We examine the impact of expected inflation on stock returns. We use inflation forecasts from the Focus survey and real … $ percentage point in expected inflation for the next 12 months is associated with a decline of $ 0.57 $ percentage points in stock … based on changes in inflation expectations from 2003 to 2016 has cumulated real returns of $ 135 $ percent while cumulated …
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