Accounting for Stock Price Movements

John Campbell

Chapter 8 in Economics in a Changing World, 1995, pp 176-185 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Until recent years, most finance economists believed that expected stock returns were constant through time. This belief implied that unexpected stock returns were driven by news about future dividends. Since finance theory has little to say about the economic forces behind dividend expectations, finance economists were generally content to treat unexpected stock returns as exogenous, and to work instead on the determination of mean returns given risk aversion and exogenous variances and covariances of returns. Fama (1970) is a particularly clear survey of this traditional approach to finance.

Keywords: Stock Return; Asset Price; Real Interest Rate; Excess Return; Dividend Yield (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23953-5_8

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