Ruenzi, Stefan; Weigert, Florian - 2017 - This version: December 2017
This paper proposes a risk-based explanation of the momentum anomaly on equity markets. Regressing the momentum … strategy return on the return of a self-financing portfolio going long (short) in stocks with high (low) crash sensitivity in ….84%. We find additional supportive out-of sample evidence for our risk-based momentum explanation in a sample of 23 …