The paper investigates how the availability heuristic of individual stocks affects equity returns, where the availability heuristic is measured by the irrational signal in the fractal dimension. Our evidence support that the availability heuristic can positively predict the short-term expected...

Traditional performance evaluation measures do not account for tail events and rare disasters. To address this issue, we reinterpret the riskiness measures of Aumann and Serrano (Journal of Political Economy, 2008) and Foster and Hart (Journal of Political Economy, 2009) as performance indices....

This paper explores the predictive power of the absolute delta beta (ADB) on future cross-sectional stock returns. By univariate portfolio analysis, bivariate portfolio analysis, and decomposition of predictive power, we find that the ADB can produce an excess return in the next month. The...