Given a text T, and several options, according to the question posed in the text T to choose the most appropriate option from the options as the answer, please directly output the most appropriate option, do not need to output the explanation.

An analyst is researching the relationship between corporate earnings growthand stock returns. Specifically, she is interested in whether earnings revisionsaffect stock price returns in the same period. She collects five years of monthlydata on “Wall Street” EPS revisions for a sample of 100 companies and on theirmonthly stock price returns over the five-yearperiod.What are the dependent and independent variables in her model?
Option A:The dependent variable is monthly stock price returns, and the independent variable is Wall Street EPS revisions.
Option B:The dependent variable is Wall Street EPS revisions, and the independent variable is monthly stock price returns.
Option C:The dependent variable and the independent variable can switch positions.

Answer: A