degree of pessimism of the representative agent is the mean of the individual ones weighted by their index of absolute risk …

when the markets offer high returns. ECINF is not only a priced risk factor, but the most significant factor in our asset … pricing tests, which suggests that ignoring the risk of information asymmetry may give rise to false discoveries of anomalies …. As a case in point, we show that momentum anomalies disappear once we control for the risk of information asymmetry. This …

In this study, we contribute to existing literature on momentum strategies by assessing a modified version of risk … conventional risk-return ratios such as the Sharpe ratio, we also employ the use of risk-return ratio based ranking criterion first … however, we invert the ordinal ranking of negative risk-return ratios to be consistent with the interpretation of negative …

value premium is larger in %u201Cbad times,%u201D due to time variation in risk preferences; (c) the unconditional CAPM … with empirical evidence, the model shows that (a) value stocks are those with higher cash-flow risk; (b) the size of the … rationalizes why the conditional CAPM and a Fama and French (1993) HML factor outperform the unconditional CAPM …