Relative Factor Price Changes and Equity Prices

Peter J. Elmer and Patric Hendershott

No 1449, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper suggests that the decline in equity prices, and thus in Tobin's average q, during the 1970s may be attributable to changes in expected relative factor prices. More specifically, q is shown to be a negative function of the extent to which current relative factor price expectations differ from those when capital was put in place. Because relative factor prices became more volatile after 1967, the observed decline in average q, and thus in stock prices, can be explained by the "relative price" hypothesis.

Date: 1984-09
Note: ME
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