Downside risk and the momentum effect:

Stocks with greater downside risk, which is measured by higher correlations conditional on downside moves of the market, have higher returns. After controlling for the market beta, the size effect and the book-to-market effect, the average rate of return on stocks with the greatest downside risk exc...

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Main Author: Ang, Andrew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2001
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 8643
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Summary:Stocks with greater downside risk, which is measured by higher correlations conditional on downside moves of the market, have higher returns. After controlling for the market beta, the size effect and the book-to-market effect, the average rate of return on stocks with the greatest downside risk exceeds the average rate of return on stocks with the least downside risk by 6.55% per annum. Downside risk is important for explaining the cross-section of expected returns. In particular of the profitability of investing in momentum strategies can be explained as compensation for bearing high exposure to downside risk.
Physical Description:46 S. graph. Darst.

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