Open Source Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing

These data and code successfully reproduce nearly all cross-sectional stock return predictors. The 319 characteristics draw from previous meta-studies, but authors differ by comparing their t-stats to the original papers' results. For the 161 characteristics that were clearly significant in the original papers, 98% of their long-short portfolios find t-stats above 1.96. For the 44 characteristics that had mixed evidence, authors' reproductions find t-stats of 2 on average. A regression of reproduced t-stats on original longshort t-stats finds a slope of 0.90 and an R2 of 83%. Mean returns aremonotonic in predictive signals at the characteristic level. The remaining 114 characteristics were insignificant in the original papers or are modifications of the originals created by Hou, Xue, and Zhang (2020). These remaining characteristics are almost always significant if the original characteristic was also significant.

[
  "920:00"
]

[
  "920:000"
]