Isolating momentum crashes

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  • Maik Dierkes
  • Jan Krupski
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)1-22
Seitenumfang22
FachzeitschriftJournal of empirical finance
Jahrgang66
Frühes Online-Datum28 Dez. 2021
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - März 2022

Abstract

Across markets, momentum is one of the most prominent anomalies and leads to high risk-adjusted returns. On the downside, momentum exhibits huge tail risk as there are short but persistent periods of highly negative returns. Crashes occur in rebounding bear markets, when momentum displays negative betas and momentum volatility is high. Based on ex-ante calculations of these risk measures we construct a crash indicator that effectively isolates momentum crashes from momentum bull markets. An implementable trading strategy that combines both systematic and momentum-specific risk more than doubles the Sharpe ratio of original momentum and outperforms existing risk management strategies over the 1928–2020 period, in 5 and 10-year sub-samples, and an international momentum portfolio.

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Isolating momentum crashes. / Dierkes, Maik; Krupski, Jan.
in: Journal of empirical finance, Jahrgang 66, 03.2022, S. 1-22.

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Dierkes M, Krupski J. Isolating momentum crashes. Journal of empirical finance. 2022 Mär;66:1-22. Epub 2021 Dez 28. doi: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2021.12.001
Dierkes, Maik ; Krupski, Jan. / Isolating momentum crashes. in: Journal of empirical finance. 2022 ; Jahrgang 66. S. 1-22.
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