Ang, Andrew; Hodrick, Robert James; Xing, Yuhang; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
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 …