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Open Source Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing

Metadata Updated: January 28, 2026

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.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date December 18, 2024
Metadata Updated Date January 28, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from Federal Reserve

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date December 18, 2024
Metadata Updated Date January 28, 2026
Publisher Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Maintainer
Identifier FRBC0011
Data Last Modified 2021-06-01
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 920:00
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Harvest Object Id 0491fdbc-a458-4f0f-b919-bccc0be495ce
Harvest Source Id ed4f9073-f069-4049-8ee0-17ff5c98cd46
Harvest Source Title Federal Reserve
Homepage URL https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/open-source-cross-sectional-asset-pricing.htm
Program Code 920:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 29256ce80122727bdf434094861d2c194bdac875e32fd1b6edf82398a3f8219e
Source Schema Version 1.1

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