Technical trading strategies assume that past changes in prices help predict future changes. This makes sense if the past price trend reflects fundamental information that has not yet been fully incorporated in the current price. However, if the past price trend only reflects temporary pricing...

We analyze a novel alpha momentum strategy that invests in stocks based on three-factor alphas which we estimate using daily returns. The empirical analysis for the U.S. and for Europe shows that (i) past alpha has power in predicting the cross-section of stock returns; (ii) alpha momentum...

This paper investigates how institutional investors matter for asset pricing by using daily institutional trading data and a natural experiment, the split–share structure reform in China. This reform required all listed companies to convert their non-tradable shares to tradable shares after...

In this paper, we find that price and earnings momentum are pervasive features of international equity markets even when controlling for data-snooping biases. For Europe, we show price momentum to be subsumed by earnings momentum on an aggregate level. However, this rationale can hardly be...

This study examines the effect of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on their underlying AmericanDepository Receipts (ADRs). We find that percentage of ADR shares owned by ETFs increasesdramatically in the past two decades. Contrary to U.S. firms, ETF ownership is positivelyassociated with stock...

Investor sentiment is an important condition for style investing in affecting asset price predictability. We find that style returns have predictive power for future stock returns in high sentiment periods, but not low sentiment periods. The correlation between style returns and stock returns...

Considering the strong gambling preference of retail investors in emerging markets and using the data of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2000 to 2018, this paper constructs an index of investor's gambling preference based on the theory of explicit preference and develops a factor model to...

Contrary to the theoretical principle that higher risk is compensated with higher expected return, the literature shows that low-risk stocks outperform high-risk stocks. Using a large-scale household dataset, we provide an explanation for this puzzling result that the anomalous negative...

The phenomenon of high-volume return premium is generally attributed to the visibility hypothesis proposed by Gervais et al (2001) based on the theoretical framework of Miller (1977) and Merton's (1987)'s investor recognition hypothesis. However, no existing empirical study has directly tested...

This paper studies the interaction of the five most well-established calendar effects: the Halloween effect, January effect, turn-of-the-month effect, weekend effect and holiday effect. We find that Halloween and turn-of-the month (TOM) are the strongest effects fully diminishing the other three...