Duration-Based Stock Valuation: Reassessing Stock Market Performance and Volatility

Abstract

Using a panel of international government bond data, I construct fixed income portfolios that match the duration of the dividend strips of the corresponding local aggregate stock market index.I find that these bond portfolios have performed as well as --if not better than --their stock counterparts in the past half century while exhibiting similar (or even higher) levels of volatility.These results provide a novel perspective on both the equity risk premium and excess volatility puzzles (bubbles).I present several potential explanations, and discuss further the implications for macroeconomics, monetary economics, asset pricing, and corporate finance.

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