Does idiosyncratic volatility proxy for risk exposure?

We decompose aggregate market variance into an average correlation component and an average variance component. Only the latter commands a negative price of risk in the cross section of portfolios sorted by idiosyncratic volatility. Portfolios with high (low) idiosyncratic volatility relative to the...

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Main Authors: Petkova, Ralitsa, Chen, Zhanhui
Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98065
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12190
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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