Asset Prices and Credit with Diagnostic Expectations

James Cloyne, Oscar Jorda, Sanjay R. Singh and Alan M. Taylor

No 2025-15, Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Abstract: Using long-run cross-country panel data, we document that (i) contemporaneous credit growth strongly predicts contemporaneous equity returns with positive sign, and (ii) lagged credit growth strongly predicts contemporaneous equity returns with negative sign. This correlation reversal is robust to added controls for contemporaneous and lagged consumption growth and these credit factors have greater explanatory power than the consumption factors. We find that a general equilibrium model with financial frictions and rational expectations fails to match the empirically estimated sign on regression coefficients. Diagnostic expectations, instead, help recover the empirically estimated contemporaneous sign as well as the reversal observed in the data. The two features of diagnostic expectations – extrapolation and systematic reversal – are key to improving the asset pricing implications of the general equilibrium model.

Keywords: financial frictions; expectations; asset prices; credit growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 2025-08-22
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DOI: 10.24148/wp2025-15

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