Stock market dispersion, the business cycle and expected factor returns
Stock market dispersion, the business cycle and expected factor returns
We provide evidence using data from the G7 countries suggesting that return dispersion may serve as an economic state variable in that it reliably predicts time-variation in economic activity, market returns, the value and momentum premia and market volatility. A relatively high return dispersion predicts a deterioration in business conditions, a higher value premium, a smaller momentum premium and lower market returns. Dispersion based market and factor timing strategies outperform out-of-sample buy and hold strategies. The evidence are robust to alternative specifications of return dispersion and are not driven by US data. Return dispersion conveys incremental information relative to idiosyncratic risk
stock market return dispersion, business cycle, market and factor returns
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Angelidis, Timotheos
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Sakkas, Athanasios
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Tessaromatis, Nikolaos
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September 2015
Angelidis, Timotheos
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Sakkas, Athanasios
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Tessaromatis, Nikolaos
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Angelidis, Timotheos, Sakkas, Athanasios and Tessaromatis, Nikolaos
(2015)
Stock market dispersion, the business cycle and expected factor returns.
Journal of Banking and Finance, 59, .
(doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2015.04.025).
Abstract
We provide evidence using data from the G7 countries suggesting that return dispersion may serve as an economic state variable in that it reliably predicts time-variation in economic activity, market returns, the value and momentum premia and market volatility. A relatively high return dispersion predicts a deterioration in business conditions, a higher value premium, a smaller momentum premium and lower market returns. Dispersion based market and factor timing strategies outperform out-of-sample buy and hold strategies. The evidence are robust to alternative specifications of return dispersion and are not driven by US data. Return dispersion conveys incremental information relative to idiosyncratic risk
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Accepted/In Press date: 18 April 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 16 June 2015
Published date: September 2015
Keywords:
stock market return dispersion, business cycle, market and factor returns
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Centre of Excellence for International Banking, Finance & Accounting
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Local EPrints ID: 381012
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/381012
ISSN: 0378-4266
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Timotheos Angelidis
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Athanasios Sakkas
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Nikolaos Tessaromatis
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