Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/60791
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 422
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
Fluctuations in the aggregate balance sheets of financial intermediaries provide a window on the joint determination of asset prices and macroeconomic aggregates. We document that financial intermediary balance sheets contain strong predictive power for future excess returns on a broad set of equity, corporate, and Treasury bond portfolios. We also show that the same intermediary variables that predict excess returns forecast real economic activity and various measures of inflation. Our findings point to the importance of financing frictions in macroeconomic dynamics and provide quantitative guidance for preemptive macroprudential and monetary policies.
Subjects: 
Return predictability
financial intermediation
macroeconomic dynamics
macroprudential policy
JEL: 
G10
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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