Because levered equity is an option on the firm, variations in asset idiosyncratic risk (ivol) induces a negative … law of one price, and is present in all but risk-neutral economies. We test the cross-sectional predictions of our theory … time varying risk factor loadings. Unconditional alpha subsequently becomes biased when asset ivol correlates with the …

This paper focuses on the horse race of weekly idiosyncratic momentum (IMOM) with respect to various idiosyncratic risk … idiosyncratic risk metrics. Further, we perform a comparative study on the performance of the IMOM portfolios with respect to … various risk metrics. At last, we explore the possible explanations to the IMOM as well as risk-based IMOM portfolios. We find …

evidence that the MAX effect overwhelms the effects of idiosyncratic risk. When we control for idiosyncratic risk, the negative … idiosyncratic risk factors explains the negative premium. Furthermore, our results are not fully explained by the exposure to the … market timing and economic state. Overall, both the extreme return and idiosyncratic risk effects appear to coexist in the …

results in a state-dependent idiosyncratic risk premium that is higher when average idiosyncratic volatility is low, and vice …In Merton (1987), idiosyncratic risk is priced in equilibrium as a consequence of incomplete diversification. We modify … his model to allow the degree of diversification to vary with average idiosyncratic volatility. This simple recognition …

We examine the pricing of tail risk in international stock markets. We find that the tail risk of different countries … mainly driven by global tail risk rather than local tail risk. World fear is also priced in the crosssection of stock returns …

This work evaluates the behavior of portfolios comprised of Brazilian stocks ranked by their volatility to investigate … the low volatility anomaly.Between January 2003 and December 2021, the low volatility portfolio presented a 6% annual … return above the high volatility portfolio. This result is aligned with the observation made by Blitz and Van Vliet (2007) in …

how these volatility measures can be used for risk management. We find that momentum risk management significantly …We introduce a new class of momentum strategies, the risk-adjusted time series momentum (RAMOM) strategies, which are … based on averages of past futures returns, normalized by their volatility. We test these strategies on a universe of 64 …

In this paper, the role of the reference-dependent preference in the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and … a reference point for a definition of the loss and gains domain. As a consequence, the negative idiosyncratic volatility … domain, suggesting the important role of the reference-dependent preference in the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle …

We analyze the cross-sectional relation between expected idiosyncratic volatility and stock returns. The expected … idiosyncratic volatility is conditioned on macro-finance factors as well as traditional asset pricing factors. The macro … between expected idiosyncratic volatility and stock returns reverses to a positive one when accounting for the macro …

This paper studies the intertemporal relation between U.S. volatility risk and international equity risk premia. We … show that a common volatility risk factor constructed from the option-implied U.S. forward variances positively and … robust to the inclusion of existing domestic and U.S. predictors and alternative U.S. volatility risk proxies. The …