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Does Idiosyncratic Risk Really Matter?

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TURAN G. BALI
NUSRET CAKICI
XUEMIN (STERLING) YAN
ZHE ZHANG
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. Copyright 2005 by The American Finance Association.

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Volume (Year): 60 (2005)
Issue (Month): 2 (04)
Pages: 905-929
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