In this paper, we identify and document the empirical characteristics of the key drivers ofconvertible arbitrage as a strategy and how they impact the performance of convertible arbitragehedge funds. We show that the returns of a buy-and-hedge strategy involving taking a longposition in...

We study the impact of the arrival of macroeconomic news on the informational andnoise-driven components in high-frequency quote processes and their conditional variances.Bid and ask returns are decomposed into a common ("ecient return") factorand two market-side-specic components capturing...

The overvaluation hypothesis (Miller 1977) predicts that a) stocks are overvalued inthe presence of short selling restrictions and that b) the overvaluation increases in the degree ofdivergence of opinion. We design an experiment that allows us to test these predictions in thelaboratory. The...