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Profitability Anomaly and Aggregate Volatility Risk
Barinov, Alexander - 2020
Firms with lower profitability have lower expected returns because such firms perform better than expected when market … with this hypothesis, the profitability anomaly is stronger for distressed and volatile firms, and aggregate volatility …
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Profit Index - Pertinent Risk of Financial Investment
Kauffmann, Amitay - 2012
extrema events risk. Based on the newly proposed riskiness index by Aumann and Serrano (2008), we construct the PROFIT Index … complete order for all risk avers investors. We present a closed-form solution to the PROFIT Index, as a function of the return … moments. The PROFIT Index is dynamically calibrated to the market, becoming a live indicator suitable for investors perception …
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Governance Risk and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
Ekponon, Adelphe - 2021
This paper modelizes and provides asset pricing implications of corporate governance policies. Agency costs, proxied by commonly used corporate governance indices, arise because insiders are self-interested and vary across firms. First, firms differ in their agency costs’ level during initial...
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Shareholder Litigation Risk and Stock Returns
Luo, Di - 2022
Shareholder litigation risk, measured using the staggered adoption of universal demand (UD) laws in 23 states from 1989 to 2005, has a negative effect on stock returns. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that, following the passage of the laws, firms have lower stock returns....
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Income Smoothing, Information Uncertainty, Stock Returns, and Cost of Equity
Chen, Linda H. - 2018
This paper examines the effect of income smoothing on information uncertainty, stock returns, and cost of equity. I show that income smoothing through both total accruals and discretionary accruals tends to reduce firms' information uncertainty, as measured by stock return volatility, analyst...
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Momentum Profits and Time-Varying Unsystematic Risk
Li, Xiafei - 2013
This study assesses whether the widely documented momentum profits can be attributed to time-varying risk as described by a GJR-GARCH(1,1)-M model. We reveal that momentum profits are a compensation for time-varying unsystematic risks, which are common to the winner and loser stocks but affect...
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Analysts' disagreement, self-selection, and stock returns
Wu, Liang; Long, Yunshen; Li, Wenyue; Wu, Bingyan - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 1, pp. 37-53
Two ex-ante variables are introduced to characterize the analysts' biased behavior, namely the analysts' disagreement and self-selection in analysts' earnings forecasts. The study investigates the impact of the analysts' disagreement and self-selection on the stock returns. A theoretical...
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Can Implied Volatility Comovements Capture More Than Volatility Risk? Evidence from Insider Trades and Aggregate Equity Returns
Bushman, Robert M. - 2019
The prevailing view of implied volatility comovements, IVC, defined as the correlation between a firm's implied volatility and the market's implied volatility, is that they indicate the presence of systematic volatility risk to the firm's investors. We take a different stance and conjecture that...
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Tax-Related Mandatory Risk Factor Disclosures, Future Profitability, and Stock Returns
Campbell, John L. - 2018
Prior research finds that mandatory risk factor disclosures are informative in that they increase investors' assessments of the volatility of a firm's cash flows. However, the literature is silent as to whether these disclosures provide information about the level of future cash flows and,...
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Are the profitability and investment factors valid ICAPM risk factors? : pre-1963 evidence
Lin, Qi; Lin, Xi - In: The North American journal of economics and finance : a … 58 (2021), pp. 1-11
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