Investments in short-term dividend assets outperform investments in the market according to Binsbergen, Brandt, and Koijen (2012), but contrary to predictions of several asset pricing models. To examine these findings, we double the sample to 24 years. We also advocate an interest rate-invariant...

Based on the typical positions of S&P 500 option market makers, we derive a funding illiquidity measure from quoted prices of S&P 500 derivatives. Our measure significantly affects the returns of leveraged managed portfolios; hedge funds with negative exposure to changes in funding illiquidity...

Using comprehensive data on London Interbank Offer Rate (Libor) submissions from 2001 through 2012, we document systematic evidence consistent with banks manipulating Libor to profit from Libor related positions and, to a degree, to signal their creditworthiness during the distressed times for...

We estimate short-duration dividend strip prices from 25 years-worth of S&P 500 index option data (1996-2020). We show that short-duration strips offer substantially more attractive returns than does the market, but the measurement error obscures this result at monthly holding periods. For...

Based on the typical positions of S&P 500 option market makers, we derive a funding illiquidity measure from quoted prices of S&P 500 derivatives. Our measure significantly affects the returns of leveraged managed portfolios; hedge funds with negative exposure to changes in funding illiquidity...

We show that S&P 500 futures are pulled towards the at-the-money strike price on days when serial options on the S&P 500 futures expire (pinning), and are pushed away from the cost-of-carry adjusted at-the-money strike price right before the expiration of options on the S&P 500 index...

We construct a panel of S&P 500 index call and put option portfolios, daily adjusted to maintain targeted maturity, moneyness, and unit market beta, and test multi-factor pricing models. The standard linear factor methodology is applicable because the monthly portfolio returns have low skewness...

We examine the use of second-order stochastic dominance as both a way to measure performance and also as a technique for constructing portfolios. Using in-sample data, we construct portfolios such that their second-order stochastic dominance over a typical pension fund benchmark is most...

Numerous hedge funds stop reporting each year to commercial data bases, wreaking havoc with analyzing investment strategies which incur the unobserved delisting return. We use estimated portfolio holdings for funds-of-funds to back out estimated hedge-fund delisting returns. For all exiting...