Debt and Equity Returns Revisited

Patric Hendershott

No 1521, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines semiannual ex post returns on corporate equities and bonds and six-month Treasury bills over the 1953-84 period with special emphasis on whether returns so far in the 1980s have been usual relative to the previous quarter century. The performance of the equity and bond markets in the 1980s has not been at all unusual, with equity returns being driven by the business cycle and bond returns by unexpected changes in new issue Treasury bond rates. Real six-month Treasury rates have averaged 5½ percentage points,far above the 2 percentage point average since 1953 but about the same as in the 1926-30 period. On an after-tax (roughly 40 percent) basis,however, real bill rate have been in line with the 1950s and 1960s, but significantly above the abnormally low rates in the 1970s.

Date: 1984-12
Note: ME
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Published as Hendershott, Patric H., "Debt and Equity Returns Revisited," Financing Corporate Capital Formation, B. Friedman (ed), Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1986), pp. 35-50.
Published as Debt and Equity Returns Revisited , Patric H. Hendershott. in Financing Corporate Capital Formation , Friedman. 1986

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