Explaining stock market returns: A review of empirical tests of asset pricing anomalies

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Hodnett
Keyword(s):  
Asset Pricing ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Asset Pricing Anomalies ◽  
Pricing Anomalies ◽  
Empirical Tests

Market anomalies, asset pricing models, and stock returns: evidence from the Indian stock market

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saumya Ranjan Dash ◽  
Jitendra Mahakud
Keyword(s):  
Asset Pricing ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Pricing Models ◽  
Market Anomalies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Asset Pricing Models ◽  
Asset Pricing Anomalies ◽  
Pricing Anomalies ◽  
Fama And French ◽  
Three Factor

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether the use of conditional and unconditional Fama and French (1993) three-factor and Carhart (1997) four-factor asset pricing models (APMs) captures the role of asset pricing anomalies in the context of emerging stock market like India. Design/methodology/approach – The first step time series regression approach has been used to drive the risk-adjusted returns of individual securities. For examining the predictability of firm characteristics or asset pricing anomalies on the risk-adjusted returns of individual securities, the panel data estimation technique has been used. Findings – Fama and French (1993) three-factor and Carhart (1997) four-factor model in their unconditional specifications capture the impact of book-to-market price and liquidity effects completely. When alternative APMs in their conditional specifications are tested, the importance of medium- and long-term momentum effects has been captured to a greater extent. The size, market leverage and short-term momentum effects still persist even in the case of alternative unconditional and conditional APMs. Research limitations/implications – The empirical analysis does not extend for different market scenarios like high and low volatile market or good and bad macroeconomic environment. Because of the constraint of data availability, the authors could not include certain important anomalies like net operating assets, change in gross profit margin, external equity and debt financing and idiosyncratic risk. Practical implications – Although the active investment approach in stock market shares a common ground of semi-strong form of market efficiency hypothesis which also supports the presence of asset pricing anomalies, less empirical evidence has been explored in this regard to support or repute such belief of practitioners. Our empirical findings make an attempt in this regard to suggest certain anomaly-based trading strategy that can be followed for active portfolio management. Originality/value – From an emerging market perspective, this paper provides out-of-sample empirical evidence toward the use of conditional Fama and French three-factor and Carhart four-factor APMs for the complete explanation of market anomalies. This approach retains its importance with respect to the comprehensiveness of analysis considering alternative APMs for capturing unique effects of market anomalies.

scholarly journals Salience and Asset Prices

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Bordalo ◽  
Nicola Gennaioli ◽  
Andrei Shleifer
Keyword(s):  
Asset Pricing ◽  
Simple Model ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Asset Prices ◽  
Equity Premium ◽  
Market Valuation ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Risky Assets ◽  
Very High

We present a simple model of asset pricing in which payoff salience drives investors' demand for risky assets. The key implication is that extreme payoffs receive disproportionate weight in the market valuation of assets. The model accounts for several puzzles in finance in an intuitive way, including preference for assets with a chance of very high payoffs, an aggregate equity premium, and countercyclical variation in stock market returns.

Relationship between Foreign Portfolio Investments (FPI), Domestic Institutional Investors, and Stock Market Returns in India

GIS Business ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Dhananjaya Kadanda ◽  
Krishna Raj
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Trading Strategies ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Foreign Portfolio Investment ◽  
Stock Market Return ◽  
Indian Stock Market ◽  
Feedback Trading

The present article attempts to understand the relationship between foreign portfolio investment (FPI), domestic institutional investors (DIIs), and stock market returns in India using high frequency data. The study analyses the trading strategies of FPIs, DIIs and its impact on the stock market return. We found that the trading strategies of FIIs and DIIs differ in Indian stock market. While FIIs follow positive feedback trading strategy, DIIs pursue the strategy of negative feedback trading which was more pronounced during the crisis. Further, there is negative relationship between FPI flows and DII flows. The results indicate the importance of developing strong domestic institutional investors to counteract the destabilising nature FIIs, particularly during turbulent times.

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