Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2014
Publication Title
Finance Research Letters
Volume
11
Abstract
We test whether innovations in aggregate risk, interpolated from a vector autoregressive system that contains the Chen, Roll and Ross (1986) five factors as in Petkova (2006), are common factors in cross-sectional stock returns. We provide direct evidence that innovation in industrial production growth, a classical business-cycle variable that summarizes the state of the economy, is associated with the cross-sectional return predictability of individual stocks. We conclude that the role of innovation in aggregate risk is not random, and furthermore that it provides guidance concerning an important source of nonfinancial market-based risk in asset returns.
Issue
3
First Page
303
Last Page
317
DOI
10.1016/j.frl.2014.06.001
ISSN
1544-6123
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Recommended Citation
Knut F. Lindaas and Prodosh Simlai. "The value premium, aggregate risk innovations, and average stock returns" (2014). Economics & Finance Faculty Publications. 9.
https://commons.und.edu/ef-fac/9