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Welcome to the “Assaying Anomalies” project page!

This project proposes a protocol and offers easily-accessible, easily-implementable tools for dissecting and understanding newly proposed cross-sectional equity return predictors. 

The project has three main components:

  1. A companion paper, Assaying Anomalies, that describes the protocol. 
  2. A public github MATLAB repository with code that implements the protocol, and also includes a far broader set of tools for conducting research in empirical asset pricing. A preliminary beta version (v0.4.0) was released on 1/25/2023. 
  3. A web application that allows users to test proposed new return predictors by simply uploading a .csv file. After applying the protocol, the system emails the user a self-contained report that describes the results (.pdf and underlying .tex files). While the web application is still under development, this page includes a form where users can upload their signal and, subject to availability of computing resources, the authors will run the code for the protocol manually and email the user the output. 
This page also contains  step-by-step tutorials for using the main scripts in the code, information about the authors, examples of reports the protocol generates, and an FAQ page.