To price assets with a parsimonious set of factor mimicking portfolios, one typically identifies and weights well-diversified basis portfolios. Traditional weightings lead to factor mimicking portfolios that are unlikely to price even the basis portfolios they are formed from. We offer a method...

Prior experimental and empirical research documents that many investors have a lower propensity to sell those stocks on which they have a capital loss. This behavioral phenomenon, known as 'the disposition effect,' has implications for equilibrium prices. We investigate the temporal pattern of...