Many asset pricing models consider ‘disagreement’ (heterogeneous expectations), while a variety of other asset pricing models focus on ‘tastes’ (preferences beyond risk aversion); yet relatively few asset pricing models simultaneously consider both. The Popularity Asset Pricing Model...

We examine how expertise of institutional investors (aka deft investors), based on the product market similarity of their 13F holdings, is related to asset prices. We find that portfolio similarity of investors is associated with returns both at the extensive and intensive margins. A long-short...

A growing literature uses portfolio holdings data to quantify the impact of investor demand on equilibrium prices via counterfactual experiments. The key parameter in relating demand and equilibrium prices is investors’ elasticity of demand with respect to the price. Unlike previous studies,...

We investigate the information source of active U.S. equity mutual funds’ value added using 234 public asset pricing anomalies. On average, mutual funds add value through their positive exposures to anomalies based on market information (e.g., momentum and liquidity risk) and lose value...