Inaugural -Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Wirtschafts -und Sozialwissenschaften der Wirtschafts -und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Christian -Albrechts -Universität zu Kiel The objective of this study is the development and application of models for financial...

A single macroeconomic factor based on growth in the capital share of aggregate income exhibits significant explanatory power for expected returns across a range of equity characteristic portfolios and non-equity asset classes, with risk price estimates that are of the same sign and similar in...

We construct a risk adjusted version of return reversal within the US stock universe, which we name idiosyncratic Z score (IZ). Stock ranking in the IZ portfolios is based on the ratio of individual stocks' idiosyncratic return and its idiosyncratic risk. We link IZ with the stocks' demand...