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Does peer-reviewed research help predict stock returns?

Mining 29,000 accounting ratios for t-statistics over 2.0 leads to cross-sectional predictability similar to the peer review process. For both methods, about 50% of predictability remains after the original sample periods. Data mining generates other features of peer review including the rise in returns as original sample periods end, the speed of post-sample decay, and themes like investment, issuance, and accruals. Predictors supported by peer-reviewed risk explanations underperform data mining. Similarly, the relationship between modeling rigor and post-sample returns is negative. Our results suggest peer review systematically mislabels mispricing as risk, though only 18% of predictors are attributed to risk.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CFR Working Paper ; No. 24-02

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Chen, Andrew Y.
Lopez-Lira, Alejandro
Zimmermann, Tom
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Cologne, Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
(where)
Cologne
(when)
2024

Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Chen, Andrew Y.
  • Lopez-Lira, Alejandro
  • Zimmermann, Tom
  • University of Cologne, Centre for Financial Research (CFR)

Time of origin

  • 2024

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