Equity Financing Risk

Mamdouh Medhat () and Berardino Palazzo

No 2020-037, Finance and Economics Discussion Series from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: A risk factor linked to aggregate equity issuance conditions explains the empirical performance of investment factors based on the asset growth anomaly of Cooper, Gulen, and Schill (2008). This new risk factor, dubbed equity financing risk (EFR) factor, subsumes investment factors in leading linear factor models. Most importantly, when substituted for investment factors, the EFR factor improves the overall pricing performance of linear factor models, delivering a significant reduction in absolute pricing errors and their associated t-statistics for several anomalies, including the ones related to R&D expenditures and cash-based operating profitability.

Keywords: Equity returns; R&D; Factor models; equity issuances; Financing constraints (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 G31 G35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 62
Date: 2020-05-20
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DOI: 10.17016/FEDS.2020.037

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