Published:
Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2013
Published in:NBER working paper series ; no. w19383
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1 Online-Ressource
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3386/w19383
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Description:
Feedback from stock prices to cash flows occurs because information revealed by firms' stock prices influences the actions of competitors. We explore the implications of feedback within a noisy rational expectations setting with incumbent publicly traded firms and privately held new entrants. In this setting the equilibrium relation among stock prices and both future dividends and aggregate output depends on the strategic environment in which these firms operate. In general, under reasonable conditions, the relations between prices, dividends, and economic output in our framework are consistent with empirical evidence in the macroliterature. We also generate new, potentially testable, implications