This paper examines competing explanations, based on risk and investor sentiment, for the cross-sectional returns in the Tunisian stock market. First, we examine the explanatory power of Fama and French (1993); and Carhart (1997) risk factors in the cross-section of stock returns. We find...

In the U.S., momentum portfolios formed on returns from 12 to seven months prior to the current month deliver higher returns than momentum portfolios formed from six to two months prior, suggesting an “echo” in returns (Novy-Marx (2012)). In 37 countries not including the U.S., there is no...

We will in this paper investigate if a Tactic Asset Allocation (TAA) decision tool such as the slope of a moving average on the asset return will result in a statistical higher profit for an investor compared to a simple random investment strategy. The result indicates that a moving average...

We examine the information content of high accruals momentum defined as a string of high discretionary accruals for four consecutive years. We find that firms that consistently report high levels of discretionary accruals experience low subsequent returns. The results are robust after we control...

We construct a momentum factor that identifies cross-sectional winners and losers based on a weighting scheme that incorporates all the price data, over the entire lookback period, as opposed to only the first and last price points of the window. The weighting scheme is derived from the...

Multiperiod portfolio choice is the central problem in active asset management. Multiperiod dynamic portfolios are notoriously difficult to solve, especially when there are hundreds of tradable assets as well as a large number of state variables. In this paper, we develop a novel two-step...