Long-run adjustment of size, value, momentum and growth premium in equity returns: Evidence from South Asian emerging markets

Autor: Muhammad Ayub Siddiqui, Adnan Shoaib
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Investment Analysts Journal. 46:97-116
ISSN: 2077-0227
1029-3523
Popis: This study scrutinizes the long-run adjustment of risk premiums in equity returns of the emerging stock markets of Pakistan, China and India, the three emerging South Asian economies, by keeping in view leading contributions of the Fama and French (1992) and Carhart (1997) models. Unlike the multifactor models based on macroeconomic factors, this study integrates firm-specific risk factors related to the market premium. The firm-specific growth factor, derived by Ho, Strange, and Piesse (2008), is incorporated as GML, which is based on assets to market value of the firm. The results from a sample of 1 198 companies, taken from three emerging markets for the period of 2001−2013, indicate that market risk premium is the leading factor affecting risk premium in Pakistan and India. Further results reveal that, although market momentum is high enough to overestimate betas in the short run, it congregates to stabilisation and correction in the long run. In contrast, Chinese markets appear to be predomin...
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