Two new predictors, FF1993 2x3 implementations, annual improvements
Major Updates
- Two new predictors:
- TrendFactor from Han, Zhou and Zhu (2016)
- Recomm_ShortInterest from Drake, Rees, and Swanson (2011)
- Fama-French 1993 style 2x3 implementations for all signals
- SignalDocumentation.xlsx BasicInfo and AddInfo are now in SignalDoc.csv
- The lit comparisons tabs are in other csvs
- This change allows for clean versioning in git
Minor Updates
- Coskewness and CoskewACX: now uses Ken French’s market return and risk-free rates
- Old version used CRSP’s NYSE/AMEX or NYSE only index and CRSP’s risk free rates.
- Accruals: now more closely match Sloan 1996 by including depreciation. #51
- Delisting return adjustments now computed with compounding #49
- Quarterly Compustat lagging deals with subtle issues with rdq #50
- Various bug fixes
- For a complete list of closed issues see here
Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.2.0