We compare the pricing ability of popular asset pricing models for the cross-section of U.S. equities on a large, liquid, but mostly segmented equity market of Chinese A-shares. The q-factor model performs well among factor models developed for the U.S. equity market, but is outperformed by a...

This paper sheds light on the similarities and differences with respect to the presence of anomalies in the China A-share market and other markets. To this end, we examine the existence of 32 anomalies in the China A-share market over the period 2000-2019. We find that value, risk, and trading...

Research into asset pricing anomalies in the China A-share market is hampered given the short time series of available returns. Even when average excess returns on candidate factor portfolios are economically sizeable, conventional portfolio sorting methods lack statistical power. We apply an...