The MAX effect: An exploration of risk and mispricing explanations

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Zhong, Anqi and Gray, Philip. (2016). The MAX effect: An exploration of risk and mispricing explanations. Journal of Banking and Finance. 65, pp. 76 - 90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2016.01.007
AuthorsZhong, Anqi and Gray, Philip
Abstract

This paper studies the role that risk and mispricing play in the negative relation between extreme positive returns and future returns. We document a strong ‘MAX effect’ in Australian equities over 1991–2013 that is robust to risk adjustment, controlling for other influential stock characteristics and, importantly, manifests in a partition of the 500 largest stocks. While there is no evidence that MAX proxies for sensitivity to risk, the findings are highly consistent with a mispricing explanation. Adapting the recent methodological innovation of Stambaugh et al. (2015) to classify stocks by their degree of mispricing, we show that the MAX effect concentrates amongst the most-overpriced stocks but actually reverses amongst the most-underpriced stocks. Consistent with arbitrage asymmetry, the magnitude of the MAX effect amongst overpriced stocks exceeds that amongst underpriced stocks, leading to the overall negative relation that has been well documented.

KeywordsMAX; Lottery; Idiosyncratic volatility; Mispricing; Risk factor
Year2016
JournalJournal of Banking and Finance
Journal citation65, pp. 76 - 90
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2016.01.007
Page range76 - 90
Research GroupPeter Faber Business School
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EditorsC. Alexander and G. Bekaert
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