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A Comprehensive Look at The Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction

Ivo Welch1; Amit Goyal2

1 Brown University · 2 Emory University

Review of Financial Studies 2008

Our article comprehensively reexamines the performance of variables that have been suggested by the academic literature to be good predictors of the equity premium. We find that by and large, these models have predicted poorly both in-sample (IS) and out-of-sample (OOS) for 30 years now; these models seem unstable, as diagnosed by their out-of-sample predictions and other statistics; and these models would not have helped an investor with access only to available information to profitably time the market.

DOI
10.1093/rfs/hhm014
Volume
21 (4)
Pages
1455-1508
Language
en
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