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A0264
Title: A critique of momentum anomalies Authors:  Thiago de Oliveira Souza - University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) [presenting]
Abstract: Theoretical, empirical, and simulated evidence is offered showing that momentum regularities in asset prices are not anomalies. Within a general, frictionless, rational expectations, risk-based asset pricing framework, riskier assets tend to be in the loser portfolios after (large) increases in the price of risk. Hence, the risk of momentum portfolios usually decreases with the prevailing price of risk, and their risk premiums are approximately negative quadratic functions of the price of risk (and the market premium) theoretically truncated at zero. The best linear (CAPM) function describing this relation unconditionally has exactly the negative slope and positive intercept documented empirically.