Macro-Finance and Factor Timing: Time-Varying Factor Risk and Price of Risk Premiums

Discussion Papers on Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, 7/2019

42 Pages Posted: 15 May 2019

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Thiago de Oliveira Souza

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Date Written: May 13, 2019

Abstract

This paper documents empirically that increases in the book-to-market spread predict larger market premiums in sample and larger size, value, and investment premiums (also) out of sample. In addition, increases in the investment (or profitability) spread exclusively predict larger investment (or profitability) premiums. This predictability generates “factor timing” strategies that deliver substantial economic gains out of sample. I argue theoretically that the book-to-market spread is a price of risk proxy, while the investment and profitability spreads are factor risk proxies. The evidence confirms standard theoretical predictions in the macro-finance literature and contradicts the hypothesis of constant factor risks.

Keywords: Out of Sample, Factor Timing, Time-Varying Risk, Macro-Finance, Fama and French

JEL Classification: G11, G12, G14

Suggested Citation

de Oliveira Souza, Thiago and de Oliveira Souza, Thiago, Macro-Finance and Factor Timing: Time-Varying Factor Risk and Price of Risk Premiums (May 13, 2019). Discussion Papers on Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, 7/2019, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3387301 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3387301

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