Cotter, John; O'Sullivan, Niall; Rossi, Francesco - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2014
We test whether firm idiosyncratic risk is priced in a large cross-section of U.K. stocks. A distinguishing feature of … our paper is that our tests allow for a conditional relationship between systematic risk (beta) and returns in our tests … conditional beta/return relationship which in turn reveals conditionality in the pricing of idiosyncratic risk. We find that …