The High Idiosyncratic Volatility Low Return Puzzle
The High Idiosyncratic Volatility Low Return Puzzle
The High Idiosyncratic Volatility Low Return Puzzle
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• For the second group in the ivol quintile 5, both winning and losing stockshave negative holding period returns.• Disagreement =⇒ Overpricing• What can generate disagreement? Hong and Stein (2007, JEP):– Gradual information flow– Limited attention– Heterogeneous priors• Miller (1977), Harrison and Kreps (1978), and Scheinkman and Xiong (2003)– Opinion divergence and short-sale constraint lead to overpricing.– Trading volume and the degree of overpricing are positively correlated.12