Roughing up Beta: Continuous versus Discontinuous Betas and the Cross Section of Expected Stock Returns

65 Pages Posted: 6 Dec 2014 Last revised: 24 Apr 2016

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Tim Bollerslev

Duke University - Finance; Duke University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Sophia Zhengzi Li

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick

Viktor Todorov

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Date Written: April 12, 2016

Abstract

We investigate how individual equity prices respond to continuous and jumpy market price moves and how these different market price risks, or betas, are priced in the cross section of expected stock returns. Based on a novel high-frequency data set of almost one thousand stocks over two decades, we find that the two rough betas associated with intraday discontinuous and overnight returns entail significant risk premiums, while the intraday continuous beta does not. These higher risk premiums for the discontinuous and overnight market betas remain significant after controlling for a long list of other firm characteristics and explanatory variables.

Keywords: Market price risks; jump betas; high-frequency data; cross-sectional return variation

JEL Classification: C13, C14, G11, G12

Suggested Citation

Bollerslev, Tim and Li, Sophia Zhengzi and Todorov, Viktor, Roughing up Beta: Continuous versus Discontinuous Betas and the Cross Section of Expected Stock Returns (April 12, 2016). Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2534007 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2534007

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