We show that standard beta pricing models quantify an asset's systematic risk as a weighted combination of a number of different timescale betas. Given this, we develop a wavelet-based framework that examines the cross-sectional pricing implications of isolating these timescale betas. An...

Recent studies find that target firm returns are reduced following sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investment. Although risk is also reduced following SWF investment, they find that SWF investment is associated with a reduction in the compensation of risk.In this paper, weexamine the hypothesis that...

This paper examines the impact of both socially responsible (SR) and conventional entrant funds on SR incumbent funds using an overlap in portfolio holdings to measure the impact of competition in the US mutual fund industry. This paper's findings indicate that over the past decade the increase...

As a banking system health indicator and risk premium, the Libor-OIS spread has attracted great interest during recent years. Despite the recent Libor fixing scandal, our study based on five major currencies can still shed insights on the true determinants of the Libor-OIS spreads under...

This paper uses daily sovereign credit default swap (CDS) prices to investigate how the credit risks of major Latin American reference entities are interlinked. Our empirical findings suggest that the underlying creditworthiness of nations is reflected in the direction of Granger causality and...

This paper re-examines, at a range of investment horizons, the asymmetric dependence between hedge fund returns and market returns. Given the current availability of hedge fund data, the joint distribution of longer-horizon returns is extracted from the dynamics of monthly returns using the...