Hongye Guo

Hongye Guo

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Research Interests: Empirical Asset Pricing, Behavioral Finance

Links: CV, Personal Website

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  • Hongye Guo, Hengjie Ai, Ravi Bansal, Amir Yaron (Working), Identifying preference for early resolution from asset prices.
  • Hongye Guo and Jessica Wachter (Working), “Superstitious” Investors.
  • Winston Wei Dou, Hui Chen, Hongye Guo, Yan Ji (Working), Feedback and Contagion through Distressed Competition.
  • Hongye Guo (Working), Earnings Extrapolation and Predictable Stock Market Returns. Abstract

    The U.S. stock market’s return during the first month of a quarter correlates strongly with returns in future months, but the correlation is negative (positive) if the future month is (is not) the first month of a quarter. These effects offset, leaving the market return with its weak unconditional predictive ability known to the literature. The pattern accords with a model in which investors extrapolate announced earnings to predict future earnings, not recognizing that earnings in the first month of a quarter are inherently less predictable than in other months. Survey data support this model, as does out-of-sample evidence across industries and international markets. These results seriously challenge the Efficient Market Hypothesis and advance a novel mechanism of expectation formation.

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