on the state of the economy. I show that a conditional model with investors' beliefs and an uncertainty risk factor is … risk factor retains its incremental explanatory power when compared to other conditional models such as the conditional … CAPM …

In this study, we contribute to existing literature on momentum strategies by assessing a modified version of risk … conventional risk-return ratios such as the Sharpe ratio, we also employ the use of risk-return ratio based ranking criterion first … however, we invert the ordinal ranking of negative risk-return ratios to be consistent with the interpretation of negative …

when the markets offer high returns. ECINF is not only a priced risk factor, but the most significant factor in our asset … pricing tests, which suggests that ignoring the risk of information asymmetry may give rise to false discoveries of anomalies …. As a case in point, we show that momentum anomalies disappear once we control for the risk of information asymmetry. This …

In this study, we contribute to existing literature on momentum strategies by assessing a modified version of risk … conventional risk-return ratios such as the Sharpe ratio, we also employ the use of risk-return ratio based ranking criterion first … however, we invert the ordinal ranking of negative risk-return ratios to be consistent with the interpretation of negative …