Abstract
This note examines, over various time scales, the extent to which SMB (the difference between the average returns of the small-stock portfolios and big-stock portfolios) and HML (the difference in returns between the high-BM portfolios and low-BM portfolios) factors share information with the innovations of state variables, which are interpreted as alternative investment opportunities. To examine the relationship, we adopt a new and innovative approach of wavelet analysis as our main empirical method. It is found that SMB and HML may play only a limited role in capturing alternative investment opportunities in the short run, but they share much information with alternative investment opportunities in the long run.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 165-171 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Finance Research Letters |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2007 |
Keywords
- ICAPM
- Investment opportunity
- Risk factor
- Time scale