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...

In this paper, we document that an application of a moving average strategy of technical analysis to portfolios sorted by volatility generates investment timing portfolios that often outperform the buy-and-hold strategy substantially. For high volatility portfolios, the abnormal returns,...

We investigate lead-lag relationships among country stock returns and identify a leading role for the United States: lagged U.S. returns significantly predict returns in numerous non-U.S. industrialized countries (after controlling for national economic variables and countries' own lagged...

We provide the first systematic evidence on the link between long-short anomaly portfolio returns—a cornerstone of the cross-sectional literature—and the time-series predictability of the aggregate market excess return. Using 100 representative anomalies from the literature, we employ a...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings have significant impact on market returns. We propose a methodology to recover the risk premium associated with FOMC meetings from option prices. We also predict the sizes of upward/downward market price jumps after an imminent FOMC meeting. In...