Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185402 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7204
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has significantly decreased exploitable returns of capital market anomalies in the US. Using a novel international dataset of arbitrage portfolio returns for four well-known anomalies (size, value, momentum and beta) in 21 developed stock markets and more advanced statistical methodology (quantile regressions, Markov regime-switching models, panel estimation procedures), we arrive at two important findings. First, the US evidence in the above study is not fully robust. Second, while markets worldwide are characterised by positive trends in liquidity, there is no persuasive time-series and cross-sectional evidence for a negative link between anomalies in market returns and liquidity. Thus, this proxy of arbitrage activity does not appear to be a key factor in explaining the dynamics of anomalous returns.
Subjects: 
capital market anomalies
attenuation
liquidity
quantile regression
Markov regime-switching
panel analysis
JEL: 
G14
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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