This study investigates the effect of market inefficiency on the value relevance of earnings. Many prior studies challenge the efficiency of the stock market, an assumption the value relevance studies build on. With evidence of market inefficiency, it becomes important to understand how the...

This paper aims to analyze so-called anomalies or additional risk factors (other than market risk) on the Hong Kong stock exchange. To do so, we first select arbitrarily several factors that we a priori believe to be significant, we then collect the data and evaluate the returns associated with...

We estimate an implied value premium (IVP) using the implied cost of capital methodology. The implied value premium is the difference between the implied costs of capital of value stocks and growth stocks and is a direct estimate of the difference in expected returns between value stocks and...

Theoretically, the implied cost of capital (ICC) is a good proxy for time-varying expected returns. We find that aggregate ICC strongly predicts future excess market returns at horizons ranging from one month to four years. This predictive power persists even in the presence of popular valuation...

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...