Profitability, Product Market Competition, and Stock Returns

This paper finds that product market competition level (measured by Herfindahl Hirschman Index using Fama French 48 industries) affects the performance of zero-cost investment strategies based on gross probability. From 1973 to 2017, the positive returns from such strategy mainly comes from the most...

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Main Author: Scott Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tuwhera Open Access Publisher 2019-10-01
Series:Applied Finance Letters
Online Access:https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/applied-finance-letters/article/view/149