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Market Segmentation and Cross-Predictability of Returns


Lior Menzly


University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Oguzhan Ozbas


University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department

October 29, 2009

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

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We present evidence supporting the hypothesis that due to investor specialization and market segmentation, value-relevant information diffuses gradually in financial markets. Using the stock market as our setting, we find that (i) stocks that are in economically related supplier and customer industries cross-predict each other's returns, (ii) the magnitude of return cross-predictability declines with the number of informed investors in the market as proxied by the level of analyst coverage and institutional ownership, and (iii) changes in the stock holdings of institutional investors mirror the model trading behavior of informed investors.

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Date posted: May 25, 2007 ; Last revised: November 2, 2009

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Menzly, Lior and Ozbas, Oguzhan, Market Segmentation and Cross-Predictability of Returns (October 29, 2009). Journal of Finance, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=989080

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Lior Menzly
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business ( email )
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Oguzhan Ozbas (Contact Author)
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department ( email )
Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089
United States
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