Style Investing

42 Pages Posted: 11 Dec 2000 Last revised: 21 Dec 2022

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Nicholas Barberis

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Yale School of Management

Andrei Shleifer

Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Date Written: December 2000

Abstract

We study asset prices in an economy where some investors classify risky assets into different styles and move funds back and forth between these styles depending on their relative performance. Our assumptions imply that news about one style can affect the prices of other apparently unrelated styles, that assets in the same style will comove too much while assets in different styles comove too little, and that high average returns on a style will be associated with common factors for reasons unrelated to risk. They also lead to a rich pattern of own- and cross-autocorrelations, sample premia that can be very different from true premia, and imply that style momentum strategies will be profitable. We use our model to shed light on many puzzling features of the data.

Suggested Citation

Barberis, Nicholas and Barberis, Nicholas and Shleifer, Andrei, Style Investing (December 2000). NBER Working Paper No. w8039, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=253147

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