Finance Seminar: Christopher Polk, London School of Economics and Political Science

Title: What Drives Booms and Busts in Value?

Info about event

Time

Thursday 29 February 2024,  at 12:45 - 13:45

Location

Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, Building 2632(L), Room 242

Organizer

Christoph Merkle

Presenter: Christopher Polk, London School of Economics and Political Science     

Title: What Drives Booms and Busts in Value?

Abstract: Value investing delivers volatile returns, with large drawdowns during both market booms and busts. This paper interprets these returns through an intertemporal CAPM, which predicts that aggregate cash flow, discount rate, and volatility news all move value returns. We document that indeed these shocks explain a large fraction of quarterly value returns over the last 60 years. We also distinguish between the intra-industry and inter-industry components of value, showing that the ICAPM explains the former better. Finally, we develop a novel methodology to perform this decomposition at the daily frequency, using it to interpret value returns during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Host: Anders Merrild Posselt