Market Frictions continued (short selling) - How do sale constraint affect the CAPM

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What is the low beta anomaly?

Stocks with a lower beta earn higher returns

What might cause the low beta anomaly?

  1. Benchmarking by asset management industry
    1. beat the benchmark
    2. Increase weight on high beta stocks
    3. High beta stocks overpriced!
  2. Disagreement + short sale constraints = overpricing
    1. investors with negative expectation cannot express this in trading
    2. Their opinion is not incorporated into the market price
    3. Investors with positive expectations are overrepresented
    4. Prices are too high

What is the intuition behind the low market beta anomaly?

  • High beta stocks --> higher exposure to market factor
  • in case of disagreement about the common factor --> larger impact on high beta stocks
    • Beta amplifies disagreement
  • Combined with SSC --> overpricing of high beta stocks compared to low beta stocks --> higher expected return low beta stocks
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What are the hypothesis about beta and disagreement?

  • High beta stocks experience more disagreeement in months with high aggregate disagreement
  • In low disagreement months, the SML is upward sloping. In high disagreement months, the SML has a kink shape
  • The average slope of the SML is strictly higher in low disagreement months than in high disagreement month

Short sale constraints + disagreement

Potential explanation for bad performance of CAPM

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