Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers,
Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics
No 12-2000: MODELING THE DIVIDEND-PRICE RATIO: THE ROLE OF FUNDAMENTALS USING A REGIME-SWITCHING APPROACH
Steen Nielsen and Jan Overgaard Olesen
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Steen Nielsen: Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Postal: Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Solbjerg Plads 3 C, 5. sal, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Jan Overgaard Olesen: Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Postal: Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Solbjerg Plads 3 C, 5. sal, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Abstract: Using annual data over the post-World War I-period, we estimate a fundamentals-based
empirical model for the dividend-price ratio of Danish stocks. The key fundamentals-variable
is a time-varying discount rate, decomposed into time-varying measures for the growth-adjusted
real interest rate and the risk premium on stocks. In addition, the model includes
real dividends and the lagged dividend-price ratio as explanatory variables. Results show
that the model suffers from structural breaks over the sample. Using a two-state regime-switching
approach to capture non-modeled shifts in the economic environment, we find that
all fundamentals are highly significant in at least one regime and, moreover, obtain a good
fit. The model identifies two very persistent regimes characterized by a ‘low’, respectively,
‘high’ dividend-price ratio.
Keywords: Dividend-price ration; Stocks; Denmark
JEL-codes: G19
39 pages, July 12, 2001
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