US Equity Announcement Risk Premia

Lukas Petrasek () and Jiri Kukacka
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Lukas Petrasek: Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies, Prague, Czechia

No 2024/38, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

Abstract: We analyze the announcement risk premia on the US market between September 1987 and March 2023 and find that the market index exhibits average excess returns of 8.3 bps for macroeconomic announcement days. This strongly contrasts with 1.4 bps returns for non-announcement days. We further measure the individual stocks´ sensitivities to macroeconomic data announcements over various lookback periods and show that stocks in the high-sensitivity portfolios offer investors significantly higher returns than stocks in the low-sensitivity portfolios. The average returns on the difference portfolios amount to 18 bps per month for the 60-month sensitivities. The Fama-MacBeth regression coefficients for the announcement sensitivity are positive and statistically significant across all lookback periods.

Keywords: Asset pricing; macroeconomic data announcements; risk premia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C58 G12 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2024-10, Revised 2024-10
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