Asset Growth, Profitability, and Investment Opportunities

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cooper, Ilan; Maio, Paulo
• 署名单位: BI Norwegian Business School; Hanken School of Economics
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2018.3036
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 3988-4010
• 关键词: Asset pricing models; equity risk factors; Intertemporal CAPM; Predictability of stock returns; Cross section of stock returns; Stock market anomalies

摘要

We show that recent prominent equity factor models are to a large degree compatible with the Intertemporal CAPM (ICAPM) framework. Factors associated with alternative profitability measures forecast the equity premium in a way that is consistent with the ICAPM. Several factors based on firms' asset growth predict a significant decline in stock market volatility, thus being consistent with their positive prices of risk. The investment-based factors are also strong predictors of an improvement in future economic activity. The time-series predictive ability of most equity state variables is not subsumed by traditional ICAPM state variables. Importantly, factors that earn larger risk prices tend to be associated with state variables that are more correlated with future investment opportunities or economic activity. Moreover, these risk price estimates can be reconciled with plausible risk-aversion parameter estimates. Overall, the ICAPM can be used as a common theoretical background for recent multifactor models.