(Presentation Slides) The Causal Effect of Limits to Arbitrage on Asset Pricing Anomalies

28 Pages Posted: 21 Aug 2018

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Yongqiang Chu

Belk College of Business, UNC Charlotte

David A. Hirshleifer

Marshall School of Business, USC; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Liang Ma

University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business

Date Written: January 8, 2017

Abstract

We examine the causal effect of limits to arbitrage on 11 well-known asset pricing anomalies using the pilot program of Regulation SHO, which relaxed short-sale constraints for a quasi-random set of pilot stocks, as a natural experiment. We find that the anomalies became weaker on portfolios constructed with pilot stocks during the pilot period. The pilot program reduced the combined anomaly long-short portfolio returns by 72 basis points per month, a difference that survives risk adjustment with standard factor models. The effect comes only from the short legs of the anomaly portfolios. Paper is available here: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2696672.

Keywords: Limits to Arbitrage, Anomalies, Short Sale Constraints, Regulation SHO

JEL Classification: G12, G18

Suggested Citation

Chu, Yongqiang and Hirshleifer, David A. and Ma, Liang, (Presentation Slides) The Causal Effect of Limits to Arbitrage on Asset Pricing Anomalies (January 8, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3228820 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3228820

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