Hardouvelis, Gikas A.; Karalas, Georgios; Vayanos, Dimitri - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study theoretically and empirically the relationship between investor beliefs, ownership dispersion and stock returns. We find that high dispersion, measured by high breadth or low Herfindahl index, forecasts returns positively for large stocks, as in Chen, Hong and Stein (2002), but...