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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright
- © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com
- ISSN
- 2045-9920
- eISSN
- 2045-9939
- DOI
- 10.1093/rapstu/rav008
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
AbstractThis paper examines the effects of macro-level disagreement on the cross-section of stock returns. Using forecast dispersion measures from the Survey of Professional Forecasters database as proxies for macro disagreement, I find that high macro beta stocks earn lower future returns relative to low macro beta stocks following high macro disagreement states. This negative relation between returns for macro factors and macro disagreement is robust and exists for a large set of macroeconomic factors, suggesting that high macro beta stocks are overvalued compared with low macro beta stocks due to their greater sensitivity to aggregate disagreement.Received July 16, 2014; accepted August 31, 2015 by Editor Wayne Ferson.
Journal
The Review of Asset Pricing Studies – Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 1, 2016