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We investigate whether value-relevant foreign information only gradually dilutes into stock prices of multinational … on firms' foreign sales information yields future returns of more than 10% p.a. globally. The return spread due to … foreign information is substantial across different geographical regions and cannot be explained by traditional risk factors …
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In this paper, we investigate the performance persistence of hedge funds over time horizons between 6 and 36 months based on a merged sample from the Lipper/TASS and CISDM databases for the time period from 1994 to 2008. Unlike previous literature, we use a panel probit regression approach to...
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This paper investigates the alpha generation of the hedge fund industry based on a recent sample compiled from the Lipper/TASS database covering the time period from January 1994 to September 2008. We find a positive average hedge fund alpha in the cross-section for the majority of strategies...
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The foreign exchange (FX) market is considered to be the largest and presumably most liquid financial market in the world. We show that even in this market exposure to liquidity risk commands a non-trivial risk premium of up to 3.6% per annum. In particular, systematic and currency-specific...
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Over 85% of all foreign exchange (FX) transactions involve the US dollar. I show that the US dollar dominates FX trading volume because of strategic avoidance of price impact. To demonstrate this, I leverage the fact that non-dollar currency pairs can be traded indirectly by using the US dollar...
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This work studies the information content of trades in the world's largest over-the-counter(OTC) market, the foreign … participantsand covering a large cross-section of currency pairs. We find compelling evidence of heterogeneous superior information … across agents, time and currency pairs, consistent withthe asymmetric information theory and OTC market fragmentation. A …
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