Abstract
All variations in price-dividend ratios result from either movements in expected returns or expected dividend growth rates. If growth rates contain a persistent component, even small changes in expected near-term dividends can cause large movements in prices. I derive closed-form solutions for the relation between the persistency of dividend growth rates and the ability of price-dividend ratios to forecast future dividends. For a constant risk premium, it is possible to match the low predictability of near-term dividends by choosing a sufficiently long half-life of news, however, this long half-life implies a counterfactual high degree of predictability for long-term dividend growth rates.
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