Value and Momentum Everywhere

54 Pages Posted: 20 Mar 2009

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Clifford S. Asness

AQR Capital Management, LLC

Tobias J. Moskowitz

AQR Capital; Yale University, Yale SOM; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Lasse Heje Pedersen

AQR Capital Management, LLC; Copenhagen Business School - Department of Finance; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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Date Written: March 6, 2009

Abstract

Value and momentum ubiquitously generate abnormal returns for individual stocks within several countries, across country equity indices, government bonds, currencies, and commodities. We study jointly the global returns to value and momentum and explore their common factor structure. We find that value (momentum) in one asset class is positively correlated with value (momentum) in other asset classes, and value and momentum are negatively correlated within and across asset classes. Liquidity risk is positively related to value and negatively to momentum, and its importance increases over time, particularly following the liquidity crisis of 1998. These patterns emerge from the power of examining value and momentum everywhere simultaneously and are not easily detectable when examining each asset class in isolation.

Keywords: value effect, momentum, commonality, liquidity risk

JEL Classification: G1, G12, G14, G15

Suggested Citation

Asness, Cliff S. and Moskowitz, Tobias J. and Moskowitz, Tobias J. and Pedersen, Lasse Heje, Value and Momentum Everywhere (March 6, 2009). AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1363476 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1363476

Cliff S. Asness

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Tobias J. Moskowitz

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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Lasse Heje Pedersen (Contact Author)

AQR Capital Management, LLC ( email )

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United States

Copenhagen Business School - Department of Finance ( email )

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Frederiksberg, DK-2000
Denmark

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) ( email )

London
United Kingdom

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