The momentum effect of assets of various classes has been known and presented in the literature for a long time. However, there is no work confirming the existence of a similar effect on intellectual assets. The reason for this lies in a different mechanism for the trade turnover of such assets....

Traditional U.S. industries with higher firm-specific stock return and fundamentals performance heterogeneity use information technology (IT) more intensively and post faster productivity growth in the late 20th century. We argue that elevated firm performance heterogeneity mechanically reflects...