Murtazashvili, Irina; Vozlyublennaia, Nadia - In: Journal of International Financial Markets, … 25 (2013) C, pp. 119-143
This paper demonstrates that the factors based on typical procedures that employ sorting by characteristics (including size and book-to-market, among others) can create a good mechanical fit in the regressions of portfolio returns. Such factors are approximately linear functions of the sorted...