When Is Distress Risk Priced? Evidence from Recessionary Failure Prediction
This paper introduces a new measure of a firm's exposure to systematic distress risk--the probability of a recession at the time of a firm's failure. For stocks in the top quintile of the probability of failure, a median hedge portfolio based on our measure generates a positive risk premium of 5%-8% per annum. Our results differ from the previously documented distress-risk anomaly--a negative correlation between the probability of failure and stock returns. We argue that the probability of failure does not capture systematic distress risk well because it does not differentiate between failures occurring in recessions and expansions.
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2014-09
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Authors: | Ogneva, Maria ; Piotroski, Joseph D. ; Zakolyukina, Anastasia A. |
Institutions: | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University |
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