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Evidencia Adicional Del Efecto Sobre-Reacción En El Mercado Español De Capitales

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  • Carlos Forner

    (Universidad de Alicante)

  • Joaquín Marhuenda

    (Universidad de Alicante)

Abstract

In a previous work, Forner and Marhuenda (2001) find that the contrarian strategy, thatis, the forming of a zero-investment portfolio that buys the stocks that have performed poorly inthe past (losers) and sells those that have performed well (winners), does not yield abnormallypositive returns in the future when three-years periods are analysed, so there does not seem to beany over-reaction phenomenon in the Spanish Stock Market. In this work, additional empiricalevidence is presented with regard to the behaviour of the contrarian strategy, and someimprovements have been made to certain issues. On one hand, the number of contrarianstrategies analysed is increased to four, depending on how the winners and losers are selected:Either three- or five-year formation periods and cumulative returns obtained from an additive ora buy-and-hold procedure. On the other hand, two methodological issues are enhanced: (i) thelong-run returns of the portfolios are calculated with both the additive and the buy-and-holdprocedures, and (ii) the methodologies used allow us to work with overlapping test-periods.Finally, a seasonal analysis of the behaviour of the contrarian strategy is made with a cleardistinction being made between January and the rest of the year. This more exhaustive studyshows that, in principle, we can not discard the existence of an over-reaction effect in theSpanish Stock market when we observe five-year time horizons. En un trabajo previo, Forner y Marhuenda (2001) obtienen que la estrategia contraria, consistente en construir una cartera de coste cero que compra los títulos que peor se han comportado en el pasado (perdedores) y vende los que mejor lo han hecho (ganadores), no proporciona rentabilidades anormalmente positivas en el futuro cuando se analizan periodos de tres años, rechazándose por tanto la existencia de un efecto sobre-reacción en el mercado español y contradiciendo la evidencia previa obtenida en este mercado por Alonso y Rubio (1990). En este trabajo se aporta evidencia adicional sobre el comportamiento de la estrategia contraria mejorando varios aspectos. Por una parte se amplía a cuatro el número de estrategias contrarias analizadas dependiendo de cómo seleccionen los títulos ganadores y perdedores: periodos de formación de tres o cinco años y rentabilidad acumulada de forma aditiva o compuesta. Por otra parte se mejoran varios aspectos metodológicos: (i) las rentabilidades a largo plazo de las carteras son calculadas además de con el procedimiento aditivo con el de comprar-y-mantener, y (ii) se emplean metodologías que permiten trabajar con periodos de prueba solapados. Finalmente, se realiza un análisis estacional del comportamiento de la estrategia contraria diferenciando entre el mes de enero y el resto del año. Este estudio más exhaustivo de la estrategia contraria pone de manifiesto que la existencia de un efecto sobre-reacción en el mercado español no puede ser rechazada en principio para horizontes temporales de cinco años.

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  • Carlos Forner & Joaquín Marhuenda, 2002. "Evidencia Adicional Del Efecto Sobre-Reacción En El Mercado Español De Capitales," Working Papers. Serie EC 2002-02, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
  • Handle: RePEc:ivi:wpasec:2002-02
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