CAP Market Expects Flashcards
7 Steps in creating a capital market expectation
- Determine asset and time horizon of forecast
- Research history
- Specify methods of determining expectations
- Find sources of data
- Intepret current market conditions
- Provide Expectations
Monitor
Name 9 challenges in forecasting capital market expectations
Limitations on economic data
Errors and biases
Historic estimates (covariance stationary)
Expost data is bias
Analyst methods
Conditional information
Misintepreting correlations
Psycological biases
Name and explain the 6 psycological biases to capital market expectations
- Achoring - high inportance on first thing heard
- Status quo - thinking things will remain the same
- Confirmation bias
- overconfidence bias - thinking youre hectic
- Prudence bias - not acting because scared
- Avalaiblity bias - being heavily influenced by recent big events
What are the limitations to economic data
is historic
Data is revised
definitions and calculations change on published data
What sort of errors in data can be seen?
Transcript (muffings)
Survivorship bias
Smoothed data
Historic estimates - why bad in capital market expectations
Historic data does not always have the same underlying regime when looked at over multiple periods - so like gold v usd over 200 years would not be useful
Analyst methods that effect capital market expectations
Data mining - bad
Correlation does not equal caustation
free answer
You are at the bottom of the business cycle, in a trough, what does that mean for the yield curve and why
The yield curve going to start to steepen - why? Loose monetary and fiscal policy Steepening yield curve
Yc points direction of economy movement
Top of the peak of the business cycle, what does this mean for monetray and fiscal policy AND the yield curve
Restrictive monetary and fiscal policy which means a inverted yield curve
What is an exogenus shock, and what 5 things may cause it
Natural disaster financial disaster War (policitcal event) Government policy Tech advancements Discovery of natural resources
3 ways to forecast economic policy?
Econometrics
Economic indicators
checklist approach
Deflation, what does it mean for bond, stock and real estate
Bond up - IR down = higher bond price
Stock down = less value = down
Real estate down = increased deafult rates
Why is it hard to stimulate a deflationary market
IR are so close to 0 that no monetary policy will work
Taylor rule = what is it
Taylor rule = Nominal rate +.5( expected GDP - Target GDP) + .5(Expected inflation-target inflation)