Stocks with recent past high idiosyncratic volatility have low future average returns around the world. Across 23 … developed markets, the difference in average returns between the extreme quintile portfolios sorted on idiosyncratic volatility … higher moments. There is strong comovement in the low returns to high idiosyncratic volatility stocks across countries …

We characterize the joint dynamics of dividends, expected returns, stochastic volatility, and prices. In particular …, with a given dividend process, one of the processes of the expected return, the stock volatility, or the price …-dividend ratio fully determines the other two. For example, together with dividends, the stock volatility process fully determines …

We examine the pricing of aggregate volatility risk in the cross-section of stock returns. Consistent with theory, we … find that stocks with high sensitivities to innovations in aggregate volatility have low average returns. In addition, we … find that stocks with high idiosyncratic volatility relative to the Fama and French (1993) model have abysmally low average …

volatility over the next month, but with decreasing realized volatility. These predictability patterns are consistent with …

century for the US, Japan, UK, Germany and France, and a shorter sample covering the last third of the twentieth century for …

We ask whether stock returns in France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US are predictable by three instruments: the …