Year: 2008
Type: report
Abstract: Stocks with recent past high idiosyncratic volatility have low future average returns around the world.Across 23 developed markets, the difference in average returns between the extreme quintile portfolios sorted on idiosyncratic volatility is -1.31% per month, after controlling for world market, size, and value factors.The effect is individually significant in each G7 country.In the U.S., we rule out explanations based on trading frictions, information dissemination, and higher moments.There is strong comovement in the low returns to high idiosyncratic volatility stocks across countries, suggesting that broad, not easily diversifiable, factors may lie behind this phenomenon.
DOI: 10.3386/w13739
Language: English
Subfield: Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W3122821343