Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns

65 Pages Posted: 23 Mar 2007 Last revised: 26 Dec 2022

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Joao F. Gomes

The Wharton School

Leonid Kogan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Motohiro Yogo

Princeton University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research

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Date Written: March 2007

Abstract

The demand for durable goods is more cyclical than that for nondurable goods and services. Consequently, the cash flows and stock returns of durable-good producers are exposed to higher systematic risk. Using the benchmark input-output accounts of the National Income and Product Accounts, we construct portfolios of durable-good, nondurable-good, and service producers. In the cross-section, an investment strategy that is long on the durable-good portfolio and short on the service portfolio earns a risk premium exceeding 4 percent annually. In the time series, an investment strategy that is long on the durable-good portfolio and short on the market portfolio earns a countercyclical risk premium. We explain these findings in a general equilibrium asset-pricing model with endogenous production.

Suggested Citation

Gomes, João F. and Kogan, Leonid and Yogo, Motohiro, Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns (March 2007). NBER Working Paper No. w12986, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=975927

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