This paper examines the temporal relationship between sin stocks and investor sentiment using vector autoregressive models. It decomposes sin returns into a market-based and pure sin component and then performs dynamic statistical modeling on the pure sin portfolio. Next, it attempts to...

Value and contrarian investment strategies are two basic approaches which are widely used by investors worldwide. Both value and contrarian investment strategies are assumed to pick the same stocks even though the approach to picking the stocks is different. Furthermore, both investment...