Limits-to-Arbitrage, Investment Frictions, and the Asset Growth Anomaly
2011
We empirically evaluate the predictions of the mispricing hypothesis with
limits-to-
arbitragesuggested by Shleifer and Vishny (1997) and the q-theory with investment frictions proposed by Li and Zhang (2010) on the negative relation between asset growth and average stock returns. We conduct
cross-sectional regressionsof
returnson
assetgrowth on subsamples split by a given measure of
limits-to-
arbitrageor investment frictions. We show that: (i) proxies for
limits-to-
arbitrageand proxies for investment frictions are often highly correlated; (ii) the evidence based on equal-weighted returns shows significant support for both hypotheses, while the evidence from value-weighted returns is weaker; and (iii) in direct comparisons, each hypothesis is supported by a fair and similar amount of evidence.
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