Revisiting the price effect in US stocks
Geertsema, Paul ; Lu, Helen
Geertsema, Paul
Lu, Helen
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Publication Year
2019
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Finance Research Letters
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30
Publication Issue
September
Publication Begin page
139
Publication End page
144
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Abstract
Nominal price does not predict average stock returns in the cross-section of US stocks using the NYSE break-pointed, value-weighted portfolio formation approach adopted in the recent asset-pricing literature. The evidence in support of return predictability is largely constrained to small stocks, with a “low price effect” more prevalent up to the 1970’s and a “high price effect” more prevalent from 1980 onwards. Among the six asset-pricing models tested in our study, only the Fama–French 3-factor model consistently yields positive alphas for trading strategies based on nominal stock prices.
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Return Predictability, Price Effect, Benchmark Models