Predictive power of dividend yields and interest rates for stock returns in South Asia: Evidence from a bias-corrected estimator

Md Lutfur Rahman, Abul Shamsuddin () and Doowon Lee

International Review of Economics & Finance, 2019, vol. 62, issue C, 267-286

Abstract: Predictive models of stock returns are often criticized for generating spurious predictability, unstable predictive relationship, and poor out-of-sample forecasting performance. This paper addresses these issues in the context of four major South Asian equity markets. We provide a bias-corrected estimate of the relationship of future stock returns to dividend yield and interest rate. We use a restricted vector autoregressive model, draw statistical inferences from a wild-bootstrap method with superior size and power properties, and allow model parameters to vary over time. Dividend yield is a significant predictor in both in- and out-of-sample (OOS) in two countries, while interest rate exhibits significant predictability in all four markets. Imposing theoretically motivated restrictions on model parameters appears to improve OOS predictability. Finally, time-variation in return predictability is found to be linked to countercyclical risk premium and persistence of the predictor variables.

Keywords: Return predictability; Excess returns; Dividend yield; Interest rate; Time–variation; South Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2019.04.010

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