An Improved Method to Predict Assignment of Stocks into Russell Indexes

41 Pages Posted: 10 Oct 2019 Last revised: 14 Nov 2019

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Itzhak Ben-David

Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Francesco A. Franzoni

Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano); Swiss Finance Institute; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Rabih Moussawi

Villanova University - Department of Finance; University of Pennsylvania

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Date Written: October 7, 2019

Abstract

A growing literature uses the Russell 1000/2000 reconstitution event as an identification strategy to investigate corporate finance and asset pricing questions. To implement this identification strategy, researchers need to approximate the ranking variable used to assign stocks to indexes. We develop a procedure that predicts assignment to the Russell 1000/2000 with significant improvements relative to previous approaches. We apply this methodology to extend the tests in Ben-David, Franzoni, and Moussawi (2018).

Keywords: Russell, institutional investors, ETFs, volatility

JEL Classification: G12, G14, G15

Suggested Citation

Ben-David, Itzhak and Franzoni, Francesco A. and Moussawi, Rabih, An Improved Method to Predict Assignment of Stocks into Russell Indexes (October 7, 2019). Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2019-03-024, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2019-24, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 19-56, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3465790 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3465790

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Rabih Moussawi

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