Table 1

Descriptive statistics

excessRrealRΔTBilltermSdpr.billΔeFFRΔSRWXΔSRKR
Mean0.57250.6433−0.02632.12152.0412−0.1859−0.0299−0.0367−0.0481
SE0.28240.22440.01840.08410.03900.05190.03640.01280.0239
Median1.03431.0190−0.00512.29941.8362−0.0811−0.01000.0000−0.0400
Std4.49213.57010.29281.33760.62080.82530.57970.20440.3799
Var.20.178712.74530.08581.78920.38540.68110.33610.04180.1443
Kurtosis1.48863.31702.6650−1.1415−0.55980.14183.61862.83390.9054
Skewness−0.72010.4522−0.5959−0.25930.6306−0.43920.0042−0.9964−0.3458
Min−18.5403−9.6038−1.1931−0.70341.1085−2.6581−2.0800−0.9600−1.3300
Max11.398219.63870.98114.62683.71951.58512.65000.53000.9400
N253253253253253253253253253

Note(s): The table reports descriptive statistics for the state variable vector Zt in equations (3) and (4). The state variable vector includes CRSP equity excess return (excessR), real rate of interest (realR), treasury-bill rate changes (ΔTbill), dividend–price ratio (dp), term spread between the ten-year and one-month treasury yields (termS), and relative bill rate (r.bill). The seventh state variable is the MP indicator variable, to which we apply three variables in turns: change in the effective FFR (ΔeFFR), change in the shadow rate of Wu and Xia (2016, ΔSRWX) and change in the shadow rate of Krippner (2013, ΔSRKR)

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