A common pattern across asset pricing anomalies
Abstract: The Arbitrage Pricing Theory implies that portfolios with small should have large alphas. We show that, as a consequence, the prominent asset pricing anomalies share a common trait: abnormal returns are driven mainly by stocks having smaller and less stable correlations with the market portfolio. Univariate sorts based on five-year rolling-window correlations with the market excess return produce patterns similar to those based on size, value, profitability, investment, price ratios, and earnings and price momenta. A correlation-driven factor that captures this common property makes some of the Fama–French factors redundant in regressions with the univariate sorts.
Project: This research was financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia . I am thankful to the anonymous reviewers of this manuscript for their valuable comments and suggestions. The usual disclaimer applies.
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2022
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Keywords: Asset pricing; Factor models; Risk premia; Fama–French factors; Dynamic correlations