Does Idiosyncratic Risk Really Matter?

Author

Zhe (Joe) ZHANG, Singapore Management UniversityFollow
Turan G. Bali
Nusret Cakici
Xuemin Yan

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

4-2005

Abstract

Goyal and Santa-Clara (2003) find a significantly positive relation between the equal-weighted average stock volatility and the value-weighted portfolio returns on the NYSE/AMEX/Nasdaq stocks for the period of 1963:08 to 1999:12. We show that this result is driven by small stocks traded on the Nasdaq, and is in part due to a liquidity premium. In addition, their result does not hold for the extended sample of 1963:08 to 2001:12 and for the NYSE/AMEX and NYSE stocks. More importantly, we find no evidence of a significant link between the value-weighted portfolio returns and the median and value-weighted average stock volatility.

Discipline

Finance and Financial Management | Portfolio and Security Analysis

Research Areas

Finance

Publication

Journal of Finance

Volume

60

Issue

2

First Page

905

Last Page

929

ISSN

1540-6261

Identifier

10.1111/j.1540-6261.2005.00750.x

Citation

ZHANG, Zhe (Joe); Bali, Turan G.; Cakici, Nusret; and Yan, Xuemin. Does Idiosyncratic Risk Really Matter?. (2005). Journal of Finance. 60, (2), 905-929.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1080