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. 2021 Apr 15;35(4):515–532. doi: 10.1007/s11408-021-00383-7

Table 1.

Impact of factor rotation We regress US factor active returns (relative to MSCI US) versus market excess returns (relative to 3 month bills) and returns from COVID-19 winner minus loser long short portfolios for fever and treatment period and a constant (α) as given in Eq. (1)

Multi-factor Minimum volatility Value Momentum Quality Size
Panel (a): January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2019
βmarket - 0.074*** - 0.144*** - 0.071*** - 0.049*** - 0.048*** 0.013*
(0.002) (0.003) (0.005) (0.005) (0.003) (0.006)
βfever - 0.046*** 0.029*** - 0.197*** 0.016 0.186*** - 0.240***
(0.003) (0.005) (0.009) (0.009) (0.004) (0.010)
βtreat - 0.060*** - 0.289*** - 0.128*** 0.041*** 0.032*** 0.062***
(0.004) (0.005) (0.009) (0.009) (0.004) (0.011)
α 0.0001*** 0.0001* - 0.00000 0.0001 0.0001* 0.0001
(0.00003) (0.00003) (0.0001) (0.0001) (0.00003) (0.0001)
R¯2 0.272 0.633 0.153 0.020 0.384 0.130
Panel (b): January 1, 2020, to June 30, 2020
βmarket - 0.006 - 0.090*** - 0.048*** 0.043* 0.035*** - 0.036
(0.006) (0.011) (0.009) (0.019) (0.009) - 0.006
βfever - 0.180*** - 0.179*** - 0.327*** 0.212*** 0.192*** - 0.535***
(0.012) (0.021) (0.019) (0.038) (0.018) (0.054)
βtreat - 0.148*** - 0.452*** - 0.193*** - 0.200*** - 0.020 0.188**
(0.015) (0.026) (0.023) (0.047) (0.022) (0.067)
α - 0.00003 0.00002 - 0.001* 0.0002 - 0.00004 0.0001
(0.0002) (0.0003) (0.0002) (0.0005) (0.0002) (0.001
R¯2 0.690 0.775 0.718 0.382 0.528 0.575

Significance level are starred as *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001