Finance Seminar with Michael Halling, Stockholm School of Economics

The Department of Finance is proud to announce the upcoming seminar with Michael Halling, Stockholm School of Economics.

Michael Halling will present:

Valuation ratios and shape predictability in the distribution of stock returns

ABSTRACT
While a large literature on return predictability has shown a link between valuation levels and expected rates of returns, we document a link between valuation levels and the shape of the distribution of cumulative (for example, over 12 and 24 months) total returns. Return distributions become more asymmetric and negatively skewed when valuation levels are high. In contrast, they are roughly symmetric when valuation levels are low. These results turn out to be very robust to alternative (a) measures of valuation levels, (b) model specifications and (c) equity markets, shed light on how equity prices regress back to their means conditional on valuation levels and have important practical implications for risk measurement and asset management. Our empirical results support theoretical asset pricing models that have asymmetric responses to shocks, such as stochastic bubbles, liquidity spirals or models with time-varying risk aversion.

Location:
Solbjerg Plads 3,
2000 Frederiksberg
Room: SPs07