Discussion paper

DP3057 News Related to Future GDP Growth as a Risk Factor in Equity Returns

A model that includes a factor that captures news related to future Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth along with the market factor can explain the cross-section of equity returns about as well as the Fama-French model can. Furthermore, the Fama-French factors HML and SMB appear to contain mainly news related to future GDP growth. When news related to future GDP growth is present in the asset-pricing model, HML and SMB lose their ability to explain the cross-section.

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Citation

Vassalou, M (2001), ‘DP3057 News Related to Future GDP Growth as a Risk Factor in Equity Returns‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3057. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp3057