Asset Pricing

The Asset Pricing Program explores the factors that determine the prices of and returns on financial and real assets, including stocks, bonds, currencies, and real estate. It also studies the behavior of households and firms that invest in these assets.

WORKING PAPERS

Anomalies With Early Exit

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Profitability, value, and momentum strategies produce significant and robust profits over 50 years in large capitalization stocks and value-weighted portfolios when using machine-learning-determined strategies to exit trades.

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PUBLISHED PAPERS

Buy-Side Competition and Momentum Profits

Authored by Gerard Hoberg, Nitin Kumar, and Nagpurnanand Prabhala

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The Review of Financial Studies 35 (2022) 254–298

The paper proposes a new measure for competition for momentum profits. Momentum return spreads equal 13.2% per year when competition is low and negligible when competition is high. The alphas are attained with superior Sharpe ratios, low skewness, and in more investible strategies with value-weighted portfolios and only large capitalization stocks.

Mutual Fund Competition, Managerial Skill, and Alpha Persistence

Authored by Gerard Hoberg, Nitin Kumar, and Nagpurnanand Prabhala

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The Review of Financial Studies , May 2018, Vol. 31, No. 5 (May 2018), pp. 1896-

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The paper proposes a new measure of competition faced by funds, one that is fund-specific, dynamic, and intransitive. Skill, or alpha, is a fund’s return relative to that of its competitors. We show that alpha is high when funds face less competition. Alpha persists for up to four quarters.