Pagano, Marco, Wagner, Christian, Zechner, Josef. 2020. Disaster Resilience and Asset Prices. Research Seminar, Collegio Carlo Alberto Turin, 02.12.20
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Abstract
This paper investigates whether security markets price the effect of social distancing on firms’ operations. We document that firms that are more resilient to social distancing significantly outperformed those with lower resilience during the COVID-19 outbreak, even after controlling for the standard risk factors. Similar cross-sectional return differentials already emerged before the COVID-19 crisis: the 2014-19 cumulative return differential between more and less resilient firms is of similar size as during the outbreak, suggesting growing awareness of pandemic risk well in advance of its materialization. Finally, we use stock option prices to infer the market’s return expectations after the onset of the pandemic: even at a two-year horizon, stocks of more pandemic-resilient firms are expected to yield significantly lower returns than less resilient ones, reflecting their lower exposure to disaster risk. Hence, going forward, markets appear to price exposure to a new risk factor, namely, pandemic risk.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Unpublished lecture |
Language | English |
Title | Disaster Resilience and Asset Prices |
Event | Research Seminar |
Location | Collegio Carlo Alberto Turin |
Event country | Italy |
Date | Dec. 2, 2020 |
URL | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3603666 |
JEL | G01, G11, G12, G13, G14, Q51, Q54 |
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- People
- Wagner, Christian (Details)
- Zechner, Josef (Details)
- External
- Pagano, Marco (Unviversity of Naples, Italy)
- Organization
- Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance IN (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5305 Bank management (Details)
- 5307 Business and management economics (Details)
- 5358 Corporate finances (Details)
- 5361 Financial management (Details)