Ruenzi, Stefan; Weigert, Florian - 2017 - This version: December 2017
This paper proposes a risk-based explanation of the momentum anomaly on equity markets. Regressing the momentum … the USA from 1963 to 2012 reduces the momentum effect from a highly statistically significant 11.94% to an insignificant 1 ….84%. We find additional supportive out-of sample evidence for our risk-based momentum explanation in a sample of 23 …