Asymmetric volatility in equity markets has been widely documented in finance, where two competing explanations, as considered in Bekaert and Wu (2000), are the financial leverage and the volatility feedback hypothesis. We explicitly test for the role of both hypotheses in explaining extreme...

This paper contributes to the equity premium prediction literature by studying the performance of rarely not researched predictors. To do so, we analyze the ability of state-of-the-art liquidity and uncertainty predictors to beat the historical average when forecasting the monthly U.S. equity...