Out-of-sample equity premium prediction: Combination forecasts and links to the real economy

DE Rapach, JK Strauss, G Zhou - The Review of Financial …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Welch and Goyal (2008) find that numerous economic variables with in-sample predictive
ability for the equity premium fail to deliver consistent out-of-sample forecasting gains relative …

International stock return predictability: What is the role of the United States?

DE Rapach, JK Strauss, G Zhou - The Journal of Finance, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate lead‐lag relationships among monthly country stock returns and identify a
leading role for the United States: lagged US returns significantly predict returns in numerous …

Shortfalls of panel unit root testing

J Strauss, T Yigit - Economics Letters, 2003 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Jack Strauss a , Taner Yigit b … Table 3 applies our
simulation studies to three widely used data sets (Maddison, 1995 data set which Evans and …

[BOOK][B] Industry return predictability: A machine learning approach

D Rapach, JK Strauss, J Tu, G Zhou - 2019 - academia.edu
We use machine learning tools to analyze industry return predictability based on the
information in lagged industry returns from across the entire economy. Controlling for post-selection …

Stock prices and domestic and international macroeconomic activity: a cointegration approach

A Nasseh, J Strauss - The quarterly review of economics and finance, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper supports the existence of a significant, long-run relationship between stock prices
and domestic and international economic activity in six European economies. Johansen …

Structural breaks and GARCH models of exchange rate volatility

DE Rapach, JK Strauss - Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the empirical relevance of structural breaks for GARCH models of exchange
rate volatility using both in‐sample and out‐of‐sample tests. We find significant evidence of …

Contagion in financial markets after September 11: myth or reality?

MT Hon, J Strauss, SK Yong - Journal of Financial Research, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Major global events can lead to a change in the cross‐country correlation of assets. Using
stock prices from 25 economies, we test whether the terrorist attack in the United States on …

Differences in housing price forecastability across US states

DE Rapach, JK Strauss - International Journal of Forecasting, 2009 - Elsevier
Given the marked differences in housing price growth across US regions since the mid-1990s,
we investigate forecasts of state-level real housing price growth for 1995–2006. We …

The linkage between prices, wages, and labor productivity: a panel study of manufacturing industries

J Strauss, ME Wohar - Southern economic journal, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the long‐run relationship between prices and wage‐adjusted
productivity as well as between real wages and average labor productivity at the industry level for …

Forecasting stock return volatility in the presence of structural breaks

DE Rapach, JK Strauss, ME Wohar - Forecasting in the presence of …, 2008 - emerald.com
We examine the role of structural breaks in forecasting stock return volatility. We begin by
testing for structural breaks in the unconditional variance of daily returns for the S&P 500 …