What long-run returns can investors expect from the stock market?

David G. Bishop and John E. Golob

Economic Review, 1997, vol. 82, issue Q III, 5-20

Abstract: This article analyzes how macroeconomic fundamentals and high price-earnings ratios on stocks will affect long-run returns. The first section reviews the stock market's recent performance and describes how investors and analysts have reacted to this performance. The second section shows how macroeconomic trends imply that long-run returns will remain close to their 10 percent historical average. The third section analyzes the long-run relationship between price-earnings ratios and returns. The section shows that high price-earnings ratios are consistent with lower long-run returns, and argues returns may have declined because the stock market is perceived as less risky.

Keywords: Stock - Prices; Stock market; Stocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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