Asia-Pacific Journal of Business (아태비즈니스연구)

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Overnight Returns, Idiosyncratic Volatility, and the Expected Stock Returns

야간수익률과 고유변동성이 기대수익률에 미치는 영향

  • Yong-Ho Cheon (School of Business, Incheon National University)
  • Received : 2023.08.31
  • Accepted : 2023.09.21
  • Published : 2023.09.30
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Abstract

Purpose - This paper examines whether overnight returns and idiosyncratic volatility (IVOL) jointly affects the cross-section of expected stock returns in the Korean stock market. Design/methodology/approach - Constructing 5×5 bivariate monthly portfolios independently sorted on overnight returns and IVOL, this paper tests whether overpricing of stocks with high overnight returns is more pronounced for the stocks that also have high IVOL. In addition, we also investigate whether time-variation in the degree of overpricing for those stocks can be explained by market volatility. Findings - Our results show that stocks having both high overnight returns and high IVOL exhibit strong negative returns in the future. In contrast, we are unable to observe such negative returns for the stocks that have high overnight returns and low IVOL. This suggests that overpricing of stocks with high overnight returns is concentrated for the stocks having high IVOL. Moreover, we also find that the degree to which such stocks are overpriced is negatively related to market volatility. Research implications or Originality - his paper is the first attempt to explore whether degree of overpricing of stocks having high overnight returns is related to IVOL. We also discover time-varying property of overpricing is jointly driven by overnight returns and IVOL. Our results indicate that IVOL might help explain other previously documented stock return anomalies, suggesting interesting topics for future research.

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이 논문은 2023년도 인천대학교 자체연구비 지원에 의하여 연구되었음.

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