Pseudo Market Timing and Predictive Regressions

38 Pages Posted: 19 Oct 2004 Last revised: 30 Jul 2022

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Malcolm P. Baker

Harvard Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Ryan Taliaferro

Acadian Asset Management

Jeffrey Wurgler

NYU Stern School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: October 2004

Abstract

A number of studies claim that aggregate managerial decision variables, such as aggregate equity issuance, have power to predict stock or bond market returns. Recent research argues that these results may be driven by an aggregate time-series version of Schultz's (2003) pseudo market timing bias. We use standard simulation techniques to estimate the size of the aggregate pseudo market timing bias for a variety of predictive regressions based on managerial decision variables. We find that the bias can explain only about one percent of the predictive power of the equity share in new issues, and that it is also much too small to overturn prior inferences about the predictive power of corporate investment plans, insider trading, dividend initiations, or the maturity of corporate debt issues.

Suggested Citation

Baker, Malcolm P. and Taliaferro, Ryan and Wurgler, Jeffrey A., Pseudo Market Timing and Predictive Regressions (October 2004). NBER Working Paper No. w10823, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=603643

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