Three essays on financial economics

Disagreement measures are known to predict cross-sectional stock returns but fail to predict market returns. This paper proposes a partial least squares disagreement index by aggregating information across individual disagreement measures and shows that this index significantly predicts market retur...

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Main Author: LI, Jiangyuan
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
Subjects:
PLS
PCA
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/283
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1282&context=etd_coll
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:Disagreement measures are known to predict cross-sectional stock returns but fail to predict market returns. This paper proposes a partial least squares disagreement index by aggregating information across individual disagreement measures and shows that this index significantly predicts market returns both in- and out-ofsample. Consistent with the theory in Atmaz and Basak (2018), the disagreement index asymmetrically predicts market returns with greater power in high sentiment periods, is positively associated with investor expectations of market returns, predicts market returns through a cash flow channel, and can explain the positive volume-volatility relationship.