This paper examines how options traders trade daily stock market mispricing measured by short-term past return and put-call option volatility spread. Anomaly return is 7.31 basis points per day when customer option traders trade along with the anomaly signal and is insignificant when they trade...

Individual environmental variables may contain information that is obscured in aggregate environmental scores when forecasting future stock returns. We apply machinelearning methods to granular environmental variables and show that a long-short portfolio that longs stocks with high forecasted...

Individual environmental variables may contain information obscured in aggregate environmental scores for return forecasting. We apply machine learning methods to granular environmental variables and find that a long-short portfolio that longs stocks with high forecasted returns and sells stocks...

Winner stocks have higher changes in sales order backlogs and a sales order backlog factor is significant in explaining various winner minus loser returns and often reduces the [alpha]s by big margins. We argue that this factor is a proxy for innovation in demand in the economy and it is likely...

In an economy with time-varying investment opportunities, the changes in technology prospects affect aggregate consumption and individual firm's future dividends, and lead to systematic technology risk. We construct a technology factor to track the changes in technology prospects measured by...

We use an investment-based asset pricing model to examine the effect of firms' investments relative to cash holdings on stock returns, assuming holding cash lowers transaction costs. We find that mimicking portfolios based on investments relative to non-cash capital and based on investments...

Financial market information can provide an objective assessment of losses anticipated from global warming. In a Merton-type asset pricing model, with asset prices affected by perceived changes in investment opportunities due to global warming, the risk premium is significantly negative and...