Conference Agenda
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AP 06: Asset Pricing Factors: Bias, Persistence, and AI Location: LR M2.2 (Floor 2) Session Chair: Irina Zviadadze, HEC Paris | |
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Persistent Anomalies and Nonstandard Sharpe Ratios 1: EM Lyon; 2: HEC Paris, France We propose a framework for rigorous inference in the evaluation of asset pricing anomalies that explicitly accounts for multiple methodological choices. We demonstrate that running multiple paths on the same dataset results in high correlation across outcomes, distorting inference. Alternatively, path-specific resampling reduces outcome correlations and tightens the confidence interval of the average return. Accounting for across- and within-path variability allows us to decompose the variance of the average return into a standard error, a nonstandard error, and a correlation term. We define the nonstandard Sharpe ratio as the ratio of the average return to the nonstandard error and show that this metric enables the identification of persistent anomalies. Empirically, we show that nonstandard errors dominate standard errors, and that 24\% of the anomalies in our sample (26 out of 107) are fully persistent.
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