Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS)

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May 2020

Equity Financing Risk

Mamdouh Medhat and Berardino Palazzo

Abstract:

A risk factor linked to aggregate equity issuance conditions explains the empirical performance of investment factors based on the asset growth anomaly of Cooper, Gulen, and Schill (2008). This new risk factor, dubbed equity financing risk (EFR) factor, subsumes investment factors in leading linear factor models. Most importantly, when substituted for investment factors, the EFR factor improves the overall pricing performance of linear factor models, delivering a significant reduction in absolute pricing errors and their associated t-statistics for several anomalies, including the ones related to R&D expenditures and cash-based operating profitability.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2020.037

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Last Update: May 20, 2020