I have used four measures that have had considerable success in predicting stock market declines of ten percent or more and average twenty-five percent. Other declines of 5-15% seem to be hard to predict ex ante, while some can be explained ex post. In this paper, I focus on six of the latter...

Movements in the stock market should reflect expectations regarding future economic conditions and lead the macroeconomy. However, evidence for stock returns providing such predictive power is mixed. We argue this arises as stock returns are noisy and consider the predictive ability of derived...

This paper investigates the predictability of stock market returns conditional on herd behaviour states (intense/adverse) using a fixed effects model to capture cross-sectional and time variability covering the European region. We show that herd behaviour negatively forecasts stock returns on...