Dissecting green returns

Ľ Pástor, RF Stambaugh, LA Taylor - Journal of financial economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Green assets delivered high returns in recent years. This performance reflects unexpectedly
strong increases in environmental concerns, not high expected returns. German green …

Forest through the trees: Building cross-sections of stock returns

S Bryzgalova, M Pelger, J Zhu - Available at SSRN 3493458, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
We build cross-sections of asset returns for a given set of characteristics, that is, managed
portfolios serving as test assets, as well as building blocks for tradable risk factors. We use …

ChatGPT and corporate policies

M Jha, J Qian, M Weber, B Yang - 2024 - nber.org
We create a firm-level ChatGPT investment score, based on conference calls, that measures
managers' anticipated changes in capital expenditures. We validate the score with …

“Honey, I Shrunk the ESG Alpha”: Risk-Adjusting ESG Portfolio Returns

G Bruno, M Esakia, F Goltz - The Journal of Investing, 2022 - pm-research.com
The authors construct ESG strategies that have been shown to outperform in popular
articles. They assess performance benefits to investors when accounting for sector and …

Duration‐driven returns

NJ Gormsen, E Lazarus - The Journal of Finance, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a duration‐based explanation for the premia on major equity factors, including
value, profitability, investment, low‐risk, and payout factors. These factors invest in firms that …

Local, regional, or global asset pricing?

F Hollstein - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2022 - cambridge.org
Analyzing several developed and emerging international markets, I test the ability of global,
regional, and local models to explain a large set of 134 cross-sectional anomalies. My main …

Integrating factor models

D Avramov, S Cheng, L Metzker… - The Journal of Finance, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper develops a comprehensive framework to address uncertainty about the correct
factor model. Asset pricing inferences draw on a composite model that integrates over …

Media sentiment and cross-sectional stock returns in the Chinese stock market

H Du, J Hao, F He, W Xi - Research in International Business and Finance, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract While Fang and Peress (2009) discover the media coverage premium in the US
market, we find that this anomaly also exists in the Chinese stock market. We further classify …

Investing during a Fintech Revolution: Ambiguity and return risk in cryptocurrencies

D Luo, T Mishra, L Yarovaya, Z Zhang - Journal of International Financial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rationally justifying Bitcoin's immense price fluctuations has remained a persistent
challenge for both investors and researchers in this field. A primary reason is our potential …

Replicating and digesting anomalies in the Chinese A-share market

Z Li, LX Liu, X Liu, KC John Wei - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We replicate 469 anomaly variables similar to those studied by using Chinese A-share data
and a reliable testing procedure with mainboard breakpoints and value-weighted returns …