Employee Profile

Stefan Anchev

Assistant Professor - Department of Accounting and Operations Management

Room number A5Y-032
Phone +4746410661
E-mail stefan.anchev@bi.no

Biography

Stefan Anchev is an Assistant Professor of Accounting, with a Ph.D. degree (in Accounting) from Umeå University, Sweden.

Stefan's research interests include the economics of (accounting) information, firm disclosures, stock return anomalies and information asymmetries. He is currently teaching the Master level course Financial reporting with IFRS.

For more information, see Stefan's CV.

Publications

Scientific publications

Anchev, Stefan & Lapanan, Nicha (2023)

Investor Base Size and Underreaction-Consistent Stock Return Anomalies

European Accounting Review Doi: 10.1080/09638180.2023.2265975 - Full text in research archive

We find that several well-documented underreaction-consistent stock return anomalies, such as those based on stocks' earnings-to-price ratios, returns on assets and past returns, arise and persist only among stocks with smaller (institutional) investor bases, which are presumably stocks that are neglected by investors. These results are driven by the short side of our long-short trading strategies (i.e., by the seemingly overpriced stocks from the bottom quantiles of the anomaly variables), they appear even after controlling for several stock characteristics (e.g., market capitalization and institutional ownership) and potential risk factors, and they are considerably more pronounced during periods with more information and/or less technology. Overall, these findings suggest that the incomplete dissemination of (negative) information across investors helps in explaining the occurrence and the persistence of the anomalies.

Academic Degrees
Year	Academic Department	Degree
2018	Umeå University	Ph.D. (specialization: Accounting)