Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153310 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 876
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper evaluates how well sectoral stock prices forecast future economic activity compared to traditional predictors such as the term spread, dividend yield, exchange rates and money growth. The study is applied to euro area financial asset prices and real economic growth, covering the period 1973 to 2006. The paper finds that the term spread is the best predictor of future growth in the period leading up to the introduction of Monetary Union. After 1999, however, sectoral stock prices in general provide more accurate forecasts than traditional asset price measures across all forecast horizons.
Subjects: 
asset prices
forecasting models
JEL: 
C52
C53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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