Why Does Aggregate Earnings Growth Reflect Information about Future Inflation?

Shivakumar, L and Urcan, O (2017) Why Does Aggregate Earnings Growth Reflect Information about Future Inflation? Accounting Review, 92 (6). pp. 247-276. ISSN 0001-4826

Abstract

We propose two explanations for the previously documented relation between aggregate earnings growth and future inflation: one based on firms changing their investment in response to earnings growth and the other based on consumers varying their consumption in response to wealth effects of profitability growth. As the supply of goods and services is relatively inelastic in the short run, our arguments imply that changes to near-term demand for investment (consumption) will affect the prices of investment (consumption) goods and services. Consistent with the investment-based argument, we find that profitability changes predict investment and Producer Price Index (PPI) shifts in subsequent quarters. Our analyses also reveal that aggregate earnings growth predicts future investment and PPI forecast errors. We find, at best, weak evidence for the consumption-based link between aggregate earnings growth and future inflation.

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Item Type: Article
Subject Areas: Accounting
Date Deposited: 13 Dec 2016 15:15
Subjects: Investment appraisal
Macroeconomics
Inflation
Last Modified: 08 Feb 2024 01:29
URI: https://lbsresearch.london.edu/id/eprint/760
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