This table gives descriptive statistics (reported in percentage points) on market-wide variables, where the market is defined as the value-weighted composite of all NYSE/AMEX nonfund common stocks.
Market turnover is the monthly value-weighted turnover (shares traded divided by outstanding shares).
Detrended log market turnover (mturn) is the Hodrick and Prescott (1997) detrended natural log of market turnover.
Market return (mret) is the monthly value-weighted market return.
Market volatility (misg) is the French, Schwert, and Stambaugh (1987) monthly volatility measure based on daily return standard deviation. Dispersion (disp) is the monthly cross-sectional standard deviation of security returns.
The first column reports on the full-sample period, August 1962–December 2002, and the last four columns report on four 120-month (decade-long) subsamples.