This paper studies the long-run risk embedded in the news about future investment-specific technology (IST). The IST news shock, which reflects future technological improvements in the production of investment goods such as computers, machines, and equipment, causes persistent future consumption...

We uncover significant asymmetric effects of realized jump risks on conditional equity premium. Negative or ``bad'' (positive or ``good'') jumps predict a rising (falling) near-term equity premium. The signed jump risk measures remain statistically significant even when we control for the...

The purpose of the paper is to provide new insights on the relation between the value/growth anomaly and the external financing anomaly by considering an expanded value/growth indicator: free cash flow yield (free cash flows scaled by price). In line with the literature on contrarian portfolios,...

This paper investigates whether realized and implied volatilities of individual stocks can predict the cross-sectional variation in expected returns. Although the levels of volatilities from the physical and risk-neutral distributions cannot predict future returns, there is a significant...

This paper provides global evidence supporting the hypothesis that expected return models are enhanced by the inclusion of variables that describe the evolution of book-to-market-changes in book value, changes in price, and net share issues. This conclusion is supported using data representing...

On this purpose, this work is focused on a non-conventional profitability measure, at least in terms of assets pricing models, where dividends or profits are widely used. The attention is focused on a proxy measure of Operating Cash Flows: the “Ebitda after Capex”. The relationship returns...

We study the problem of detecting structural instability of factor strength in asset pricing models for financial returns. We allow for strong and weaker factors, in which the sum of squared betas grows at a rate equal to and slower than the number of test assets, respectively: this growth rate...

Solutions to the equity premium puzzle should inform us about the cross-section of stock returns. An external habit model with heterogeneous firms reproduces numerous stylized facts about both the equity premium and the value premium. The equity premium is large, time-varying, and linked with...

We show that news stories contain information about economic linkages between firms and document that information diffuses slowly across linked stocks. Specifically, we identify linked stocks from co-mentions in news stories and find that linked stocks cross-predict one another's returns in the...