TY - UNPD A1 - Croce, Mariano M. A1 - Marchuk, Tatyana A1 - Schlag, Christian T1 - The leading premium T2 - SAFE working paper ; No. 371 N2 - In this paper, we consider conditional measures of lead-lag relationships between aggregate growth and industry-level cash-flow growth in the US. Our results show that firms in leading industries pay an average annualized return 3.6\% higher than that of firms in lagging industries. Using both time series and cross sectional tests, we estimate an annual pure timing premium ranging from 1.2% to 1.7%. This finding can be rationalized in a model in which (a) agents price growth news shocks, and (b) leading industries provide valuable resolution of uncertainty about the growth prospects of lagging industries. T3 - SAFE working paper - 371 Y1 - 2022 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70110 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-701102 UR - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2692892 N1 - Schlag gratefully acknowledges research and financial support from SAFE. PB - SAFE CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -