One argument made by US equity bulls is that Shiller’s cyclically-adjusted price/earnings ratio (CAPE) exaggerates the extent to which the stock market is overvalued because it does not account for a structural shift in firms’ dividend policy. This hypothesis makes sense in theory, but it does not sit comfortably with the empirical evidence.
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