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Friend or Foe : Risk Factors and Behavioral Bias
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Profitability and investment are becoming the new focus of empirical asset pricing. This paper examines the extent to which their return predictability is attributable to behavioral bias, specifically, investors’ tendency to anchor on 52-week high. Based on a return decomposition methodology developed by George, Hwang, and Li (2014), two profitability measures (operating profitability, return on equity) and two investment measures (asset growth and investment to assets) are entirely attributable to anchoring. Gross profitability is an exception, which remains significant in predicting returns after accounting for anchoring. These results survive a battery of robustness checks and hold largely in various subsamples. The findings send a warning that these two potential risk factors could be actually attributed to behavioral bias. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://swfa2015.uno.edu/G_%20Investment_Factor_&_Return/paper_100.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
