How common are common return factors across NYSE and Nasdaq?

Christophe Villa (1) , Amit Goyal (2) , Christophe Pérignon (3)

1 Audencia Recherche
2 Swiss Finance Institute [Geneva]
3 GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC

We entertain the possibility of pervasive factors that are not common across two (or more) groups of securities. We propose and implement a general procedure to estimate the space spanned by common and group-specific pervasive factors. In our empirical analysis, we study the factor structure of excess returns on stocks traded on the NYSE and Nasdaq using our methodology. We find that there are only two common pervasive factors that govern the returns for both NYSE and Nasdaq. At the same time, the NYSE and Nasdaq each have one more group-specific factor that is not the same across the two exchanges. Our results point to the absence of complete similarity between the factors driving the returns on these exchanges.

Mots clés: Risk factors; Factor analysis; Asset pricing; Arbitrage pricing theory; Common subspace

Domaines: Gestion et management

Christophe Villa, Amit Goyal, Christophe Pérignon. How common are common return factors across NYSE and Nasdaq?. Journal of Financial Economics, 2008, 90 (3), pp.252-271. ⟨10.1016/j.jfineco.2008.01.004⟩. ⟨hal-00796909⟩