This paper serves two purposes. First, we introduce a new data set on the German stock market which is publicly available to all researchers. It comprises factor returns (a market factor, a size factor, a book-to-market factor, and a momentum factor) as well as returns of portfolios which are...

This paper serves two purposes. First, we introduce a new data set on the German stock market which is publicly available to all researchers. It comprises factor returns (a market factor, a size factor, a book-to-market factor, and a momentum factor) as well as returns of portfolios which are...

This paper examines the impact of illiquidity on equity returns on the German stock market. Since illiquidity has many facets, we cover the whole spectrum of illiquidity measures: trading speed, trading costs, trading quantity, and price impact. Based on these illiquidity measures we construct...

We introduce a new data set that comprises factor returns and returns of portfolios that are single- and double-sorted. We use this data set to perform asset-pricing tests for the german equity market. We test the standard CAPM, the Fama-French (1993) three-factor model, and the carhart (1997)...

Although most of the empirical and theoretical asset pricing literature predicts a positive or no signi ficant relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and returns, Ang et al. (2006, 2009) find that high idiosyncratic volatility stocks have low returns and vice versa. We deliver further...