Maxing Out: Stocks as Lotteries and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
Maxing Out: Stocks as Lotteries and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
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10.2139/ssrn.1262416
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2009-02
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Turan G. Bali;Nusret Cakici;Robert F. Whitelaw
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Turan G. Bali;Nusret Cakici;Robert F. Whitelaw
Motivated by existing evidence of a preference among investors for assets with lottery-like payoffs and that many investors are poorly diversified, we investigate the significance of extreme positive returns in the cross-sectional pricing of stocks. Portfolio-level analyses and firm-level cross-sectional regressions indicate a negative and significant relation between the maximum daily return over the past one month (MAX) and expected stock returns. Average raw and risk-adjusted return differences between stocks in the lowest and highest MAX deciles exceed 1% per month. These results are robust to controls for size, book-to-market, momentum, short-term reversals, liquidity, and skewness. Of particular interest, including MAX reverses the puzzling negative relation between returns and idiosyncratic volatility recently documented in Ang et al. (2006, 2008).