Endogenous Information, Risk Characterization, and the Predictability of Average Stock Returns

Pradosh Simlai ()
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Pradosh Simlai: University of North Dakota

Brazilian Review of Finance, 2012, vol. 10, issue 3, 291-315

Abstract: In this paper we provide a new type of risk characterization of the predictability of two widely known abnormal patterns in average stock returns: momentum and reversal. The purpose is to illustrate the relative importance of common risk factors and endogenous information. Our results demonstrates that in the presence of zero-investment factors, spreads in average momentum and reversal returns correspond to spreads in the slopes of the endogenous information. The empirical findings support the view that various classes of firms react differently to volatility risk, and endogenous information harbor important sources of potential risk loadings. Taken together, our results suggest that returns are influenced by random endogenous information flow, which is asymmetric in nature, and can be used as a performance attribution factor. If one fails to incorporate the existing asymmetric endogenous information hidden in the historical behavior, any attempt to explore average stock return predictability will be subject to an unquantified specification bias.

Keywords: stock returns; volatility persistence; endogenous information; momentum; reversal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G1 G12 G14 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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