Christopher Polk

London School of Economics

London School of Economics

United Kingdom

http://personal.lse.ac.uk/polk/

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1.

Best Ideas

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2021
Miguel Anton, Randolph B. Cohen and Christopher Polk
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and London School of Economics
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mutual funds, managerial skill, market efficiency

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How the Inflation Illusion Killed the CAPM

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 May 2004
Randolph B. Cohen, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, London School of Economics and Arrowstreet Capital, LP
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Inflation illusion, CAPM, beta

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The Real Effects of Investor Sentiment

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The Real Effects of Investor Sentiment

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 30 Nov 2002
Christopher Polk and Paola Sapienza
London School of Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance
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The Real Effects of Investor Sentiment

6th Annual Texas Finance Festival
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 Sep 2004
Christopher Polk and Paola Sapienza
London School of Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance
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The Real Effects of Investor Sentiment

NBER Working Paper No. w10563
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 04 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2022
Christopher Polk and Paola Sapienza
London School of Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance
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The Real Effects of Investor Sentiment

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 08 May 2003
Christopher Polk and Paola Sapienza
London School of Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance
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Behavioural finance, investments

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Financial Constraints and Stock Returns

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Financial Constraints and Stock Returns

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Aug 1998
Owen A. Lamont, Christopher Polk and Jesus Saa-Requejo
Harvard University - Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Vega Asset Management LLC
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Financial Constraints and Stock Returns

NBER Working Paper No. w6210
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2022
Owen A. Lamont, Christopher Polk and Jesus Saa-Requejo
Harvard University - Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Vega Asset Management LLC
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Financial Constraints and Stock Returns

Posted: 19 Jul 2000
Owen A. Lamont, Christopher Polk and Jesus Saa-Requejo
Harvard University - Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Vega Asset Management LLC

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Time-Series Variation in Factor Premia: The Influence of the Business Cycle

Time-Series Variation in Factor Premia: The Influence of the Business Cycle (2020), Polk, C., Haghbin, M., and de Longis, A., Journal F Investment Management, Volume 18, No.1 https://www.joim.com/time-series-variation-in-factor-premia-the-influence-of-the-business-cycle/
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 May 2019 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2020
Christopher Polk, Mo Haghbin and Alessio de Longis
London School of Economics, OppenheimerFunds and OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
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Factor investing, factor rotation, dynamic multifactor, global macro, business cycles, risk premia, factor tilting, factor timing, asset allocation

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Does Diversification Destroy Value? Evidence from Industry Shocks

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Does Diversification Destroy Value? Evidence from Industry Shocks

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Jul 2000
Owen A. Lamont and Christopher Polk
Harvard University - Department of Economics and London School of Economics
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Does Diversification Destroy Value? Evidence from Industry Shocks

NBER Working Paper No. w7803
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 May 2011 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2022
Owen A. Lamont and Christopher Polk
Harvard University - Department of Economics and London School of Economics
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Does Risk or Mispricing Explain the Cross-Section of Stock Prices

AFA 2003 Washington, DC Meetings; EFA 2002 Berlin Meetings Presented Paper, HBS Finance Working Paper No. 03-107
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 02 Mar 2002
Randolph B. Cohen, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, London School of Economics and Arrowstreet Capital, LP
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stock prices, present value, book-to-market, variance decomposition, capital asset pricing model, beta, expected returns, return on equity

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Growth or Glamour? Fundamentals and Systematic Risk in Stock Returns

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Growth or Glamour? Fundamentals and Systematic Risk in Stock Returns

Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2082
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Mar 2006
John Y. Campbell, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
Harvard University - Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Arrowstreet Capital, LP
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Growth or Glamour? Fundamentals and Systematic Risk in Stock Returns

NBER Working Paper No. w11389
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2022
John Y. Campbell, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
Harvard University - Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Arrowstreet Capital, LP
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Growth or Glamour? Fundamentals and Systematic Risk in Stock Returns

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 1, pp. 305-344, 2009
Posted: 25 Jan 2010
John Y. Campbell, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
Harvard University - Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Arrowstreet Capital, LP

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G12, G14, N22

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An Intertemporal CAPM with Stochastic Volatility

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An Intertemporal CAPM with Stochastic Volatility

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 15 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2016
John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio, Christopher Polk and Robert Turley
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Yale School of Management, London School of Economics and Harvard University
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ICAPM, time-varying expected returns, stochastic volatility, value premium

An Intertemporal CAPM with Stochastic Volatility

NBER Working Paper No. w18411
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 22 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2023
John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio, Christopher Polk and Robert Turley
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Yale School of Management, London School of Economics and Harvard University
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An Intertemporal CAPM with Stochastic Volatility

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10681
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Jun 2015
John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio, Christopher Polk and Robert Turley
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Yale School of Management, London School of Economics and Dodge & Cox Funds
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ICAPM, stochastic volatility, time-varying expected returns, value premium

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New Forecasts of the Equity Premium

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New Forecasts of the Equity Premium

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 10 Jan 2005
Christopher Polk, Samuel Brodsky Thompson and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
London School of Economics, Arrowstreet Capital, L.P. and Arrowstreet Capital, LP
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risk premium, beta, bias, size, conditional test

New Forecasts of the Equity Premium

NBER Working Paper No. w10406
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 19 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2022
Christopher Polk, Samuel Brodsky Thompson and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
London School of Economics, Arrowstreet Capital, L.P. and Arrowstreet Capital, LP
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The Diversification Discount: Cash Flows vs. Returns

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The Diversification Discount: Cash Flows vs. Returns

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Jan 2000
Owen A. Lamont and Christopher Polk
Harvard University - Department of Economics and London School of Economics
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The Diversification Discount: Cash Flows vs. Returns

NBER Working Paper No. w7396
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 26 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2022
Owen A. Lamont and Christopher Polk
Harvard University - Department of Economics and London School of Economics
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The Price is (Almost) Right

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The Price is (Almost) Right

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 06 Mar 2005
Randolph B. Cohen, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, London School of Economics and Arrowstreet Capital, LP
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stock prices, present value, book-to-market, variance decomposition, capital asset pricing model, beta, expected returns, return on equity

The Price is (Almost) Right

NBER Working Paper No. w10131
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 Dec 2003 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2022
Randolph B. Cohen, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, London School of Economics and Arrowstreet Capital, LP
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Hard Times

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Hard Times

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2011
John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio and Christopher Polk
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Yale School of Management and London School of Economics
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Hard Times

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 12-46, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Sep 2012
John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio and Christopher Polk
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Yale School of Management and London School of Economics
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Hard Times

NBER Working Paper No. w16222
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2023
John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio and Christopher Polk
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Yale School of Management and London School of Economics
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Putting the Price in Asset Pricing

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 28 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2021
Thummim Cho and Christopher Polk
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance and London School of Economics
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price level, long-horizon returns, mispricing metric, stochastic discount factor, CAPM

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What Drives Booms and Busts in Value?

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 23 Mar 2023
John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio and Christopher Polk
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Yale School of Management and London School of Economics
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Value, intertemporal CAPM, industry decomposition

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Scale or Yield? A Present-Value Identity

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 08 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2022
Thummim Cho, Lukas Kremens, Dongryeol Lee and Christopher Polk
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance, University of Washington, UCLA - Anderson School of Management and London School of Economics
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The Value Spread

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The Value Spread

NBER Working Paper No. w8242
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Apr 2001 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2022
Randolph B. Cohen, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, London School of Economics and Arrowstreet Capital, LP
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The Value Spread

Journal of Finance, Vol. 58, pp. 609-642, April 2003
Posted: 17 Sep 2003
Randolph B. Cohen, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, London School of Economics and Arrowstreet Capital, LP

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Money Illusion in the Stock Market: The Modigliani-Cohn Hypothesis

NBER Working Paper No. w11018
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2022
Randolph B. Cohen, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, London School of Economics and Arrowstreet Capital, LP
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A Forecast Evaluation of Expected Equity Return Measures

Bank of England Working Paper No. 520
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2015
Michael Chin and Christopher Polk
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) and London School of Economics
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Expected returns, implied cost of capital, dividend discount model, return predictability, forecasting

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Long-Horizon Investing in a Non-CAPM World

Number of pages: 128 Posted: 05 May 2022
Christopher Polk, Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley
London School of Economics, London School of Economics and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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Market efficiency, asset pricing, fund flows, value and momentum, limits of arbitrage, long-horizon investing

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Ripples into Waves: Trade Networks, Economic Activity, and Asset Prices

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2021
Jinfan Zhang, Huancheng Du, Dong Lou and Christopher Polk
Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Central University of Finance and Economics, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and London School of Economics
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Sovereign CDS, Return predictability, Trade networks, Limited attention, Information aggregation

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The Booms and Busts of Beta Arbitrage

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11531
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 26 Sep 2016
Shiyang Huang, Dong Lou and Christopher Polk
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and London School of Economics
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betting against beta, crowded trades, positive-feedback trading

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The Stock Market and Corporate Investment: A Test of Catering Theory

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 187-217, 2009
Posted: 03 Jan 2009
Christopher Polk and Paola Sapienza
London School of Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance

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G14, G31

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Compustat Selection Bias in Tests of the Sharpe-Lintner-Black CAPM

Posted: 05 Jul 1998
Randolph B. Cohen and Christopher Polk
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and London School of Economics

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An Investigation of the Impact of Industry Factors in Asset-Pricing Tests

WP96-002
Posted: 19 May 1998
Randolph B. Cohen and Christopher Polk
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and London School of Economics

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