Whether or not anomalies are due to mispricing or risk is an important question. We examine the causal effect of a novel shock to short selling, the Job and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA) of 2003, on an extensive set of 182 anomalies. We find that anomalies become stronger after...

In the recent financial crisis, the Dow Jones stock market index dropped about 54% from a high of 14164.53 on October 9, 2007 to a low of 6547.05 on March 9, 2009. Alan Greenspan calls this a 'once-in-a century' crisis. While we do not know how he drew his conclusion, we show that the...

We apply a reduced-rank approach to reduce a large number of observable factors to a few parsimonious ones. Out of 70 factor proxies, we find that the best five combinations seem adequate and outperform the Fama-French (2015) five factors for pricing industry portfolios as expected. However,...

This paper examines the macro-spanning hypothesis for bond returns in international markets. Based on a large panel of real-time macro variables that are not subject to revisions, wefind that global macro factors have predictive power for bond returns unspanned by yield factors.Furthermore, we...

The market risk premium is central in finance, and has been analyzed by numerous studies in the time-series predictability literature and by growing studies in the options literature. In this paper, we provide a novel link between the two literatures. Theoretically, we derive a lower bound on...

We provide the first comprehensive analysis of option information for pricing the cross-section of stock returns by jointly examining extensive sets of firm and option characteristics. Using portfolio sorts and high-dimensional methods, we show that certain option measures have significant...

To facilitate wide use of the bootstrap method in finance, this paper shows by intuitive arguments and by simulations how it can improve upon existing tests to allow less restrictive distributional assumptions on the data and to yield more reliable (higher-order accurate) asymptotic inference....

Using data from the Tokyo Stock Exchange, we study how beta, size, and ratio of book to market equity (BE/ME) account for the cross-section of expected stock returns over different lengths of investment horizons. We find that $\beta$, adjusted for infrequent trading or not, fails to explain the...

Using data from the Tokyo Stock Exchange, we study how beta, size, and ratio of book to market equity (BE/ME) account for the cross-section of expected stock returns over different lengths of investment horizons. We find that $\beta$, adjusted for infrequent trading or not, fails to explain the...