Digesting Anomalies: An Investment Approach

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming

Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. WP 2012-03-021

Dice Center Working Paper No. 2012-21

182 Pages Posted: 12 Oct 2014

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Kewei Hou

Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

Chen Xue

University of Cincinnati

Lu Zhang

Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: October 1, 2014

Abstract

An empirical q-factor model consisting of the market factor, a size factor, an investment factor, and a profitability factor largely summarizes the cross section of average stock returns. A comprehensive examination of nearly 80 anomalies reveals that about one-half of the anomalies are insignificant in the broad cross section. More importantly, with a few exceptions, the q-factor model’s performance is at least comparable to, and in many cases better than that of the Fama-French (1993) 3-factor model and the Carhart (1997) 4-factor model in capturing the remaining significant anomalies.

Keywords: The q-factor model, anomalies, factor regressions

JEL Classification: G12, G14

Suggested Citation

Hou, Kewei and Xue, Chen and Zhang, Lu, Digesting Anomalies: An Investment Approach (October 1, 2014). Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. WP 2012-03-021, Dice Center Working Paper No. 2012-21, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2508322

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