Characteristics, Covariances, And Average Returns: 1929 To 1997 (1999)
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@MISC{Davis99characteristics,covariances,,
author = {James L. Davis and Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French},
title = {Characteristics, Covariances, And Average Returns: 1929 To 1997},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
The value premium in U.S. stock returns is robust. The positive relation between average return and book-to-market equity is as strong for 1929 to 1963 as for the subsequent period studied in previous papers. A three-factor risk model explains the value premium better than the hypothesis that the book-tomarket characteristic is compensated irrespective of risk loadings. Firms with high ratios of book value to the market value of common equity have higher average returns than firms with low book-to-market ratios (Rosenberg, Reid, and Lanstein (1985)). Because the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) of Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965) does not explain this pattern in average returns, it is typically called an anomaly. There are four common explanations for the book-to-market (BE/ME) anomaly. One says that the positive relation between BE/ME and average return (the so-called value premium) is a chance result unlikely to be observed out of sample (Black (1993), MacKinlay (1995)). Out-of-s...
