The predictive value of inequality measures for stock returns: An analysis of long-span UK data using quantile random forests

Rangan Gupta, Christian Pierdzioch, Andrew J. Vivian and Mark Wohar ()

Finance Research Letters, 2019, vol. 29, issue C, 315-322

Abstract: We contribute to research on the predictability of stock returns in two ways. First, we use quantile random forests to study the predictive value of various consumption-based and income-based inequality measures across the quantiles of the conditional distribution of stock returns. Second, we examine whether the inequality measures, measured at a quarterly frequency, have out-of-sample predictive value for stock returns at three different forecast horizons. Our results suggest that the inequality measures have predictive value for stock returns in sample, but do not systematically predict stock returns out of sample.

Keywords: Stock returns; Predictability; Inequality measures; Quantile random forests (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C53 G17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2018.08.013

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