Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?

R. David McLean, Jeffrey Pontiff · 2016 · The Journal of Finance
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Anomaly returns are lower out of sample and lower still after publication. Expect alpha found in papers to decay.

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Beginner: No prior microstructure or stochastic calculus needed
Horizon
LFT
Data needed
Daily bars Set what data you have
Themes
Factors & momentumBacktesting
Assets
Equities
Market
US

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