Roughing up beta: Continuous versus discontinuous betas and the cross section of expected stock returns

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Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
Year: 2016
Volume: 120
Issue: 3
Pages: 464-490

Authors (3)

Bollerslev, Tim (National Bureau of Economic Re...) Li, Sophia Zhengzi (not in RePEc) Todorov, Viktor (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

1.341 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We investigate how individual equity prices respond to continuous and jumpy market price moves and how these different market price risks, or betas, are priced in the cross section of expected stock returns. Based on a novel high-frequency data set of almost 1,000 stocks over two decades, we find that the two rough betas associated with intraday discontinuous and overnight returns entail significant risk premiums, while the intraday continuous beta does not. These higher risk premiums for the discontinuous and overnight market betas remain significant after controlling for a long list of other firm characteristics and explanatory variables.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:jfinec:v:120:y:2016:i:3:p:464-490
Journal Field
Finance
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-24