Frazzini, Andrea; Pedersen, Lasse Heje - In: Journal of Financial Economics 111 (2014) 1, pp. 1-25
consistent with each of the model's five central predictions: (1) Because constrained investors bid up high-beta assets, high … beta is associated with low alpha, as we find empirically for US equities, 20 international equity markets, Treasury bonds …, corporate bonds, and futures. (2) A betting against beta (BAB) factor, which is long leveraged low-beta assets and short high-beta …