Value return predictability across asset classes and commonalities in risk premia

Fahiz Baba Yara*, Martijn Boons, Andrea Tamoni

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We show that returns to value strategies in individual equities, industries, commodities, currencies, global government bonds, and global stock indexes are predictable in the time series by their respective value spreads. In all these asset classes, expected value returns vary by at least as much as their unconditional level. A single common component of the value spreads captures about two-thirds of value return predictability and the remainder is asset class specific. We argue that common variation in value premia is consistent with rationally time-varying expected returns, because (i) common value is closely associated with standard proxies for risk premia, such as the dividend yield, intermediary leverage, and illiquidity, and (ii) value premia are globally high in bad times.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)449-484
JournalReview of Finance
Volume25
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2021

Keywords

  • Value spread
  • Global asset pricing
  • Return predictability
  • Alternative assets
  • Common and asset class-specific value
  • BOOK-TO-MARKET
  • CROSS-SECTION
  • TIME-SERIES
  • STOCK
  • MOMENTUM
  • SIZE
  • LIQUIDITY
  • GROWTH
  • MODEL

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