The change in stock-selection risk and stock market returns
Jing Liu,
Qiubei He,
Yan Li,
Luu Duc Toan Huynh and
Chao Liang
International Review of Financial Analysis, 2023, vol. 85, issue C
Abstract:
Following Jiang et al. (2021), who propose a stock-selection opportunity (SSO) measurement by the absolute average positive alpha of individual stocks to reflect stock-selection timing, we construct a stock-selection risk (SSR) measure from the perspective of negative alphas of individual stocks. Then, we investigate the predictive abilities of SSO, SSR, the change of SSO (CSSO), and the change of SSR (CSSR) on stock market returns. By using data from 2003 to 2020 in China, we find that only CSSR significantly predicts future one-month market returns. Moreover, considering other popular predictors, our in-sample and out-of-sample results and a series of robustness checks support the proposal that CSSR provides unique information for predicting market returns that reduces forecast errors and increases economic value for investors. Furthermore, our trading activity evidence shows that CSSR predicts stock market returns due to investors' underreaction to the information of CSSR.
Keywords: Stock-selection risk; Change of stock-selection risk; Return forecasting; Out-of-sample forecasting; Chinese stock market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 G14 G23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102457
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