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Time-varying aggregate tail risk and cross-section of stock returns: Indian evidence

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  • Dixit, Alok
  • Bajpai, Shweta

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This article examines whether the time-varying aggregate tail risk is priced in the cross-section of average returns in the Indian equity market. The results show that the tail risk beta sorted portfolio returns increase monotonically with an increase in their tail risk sensitivity. More importantly, the Indian stocks provide economically and statistically significant risk premium for the tail beta risk factor. The findings remain robust after controlling for the Fama–French and momentum risk factors, and other individual characteristics governing tail behaviour of stocks. The study also provides evidence that institutional ownership and firm size affect tail risk premium.

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  • Dixit, Alok & Bajpai, Shweta, 2024. "Time-varying aggregate tail risk and cross-section of stock returns: Indian evidence," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 69(PB).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:finlet:v:69:y:2024:i:pb:s1544612324012388
    DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106209
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    Keywords

    Asset pricing; Fama–French three factors; Momentum factor; Aggregate tail risk; Risk premium;
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    JEL classification:

    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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