Using one of the greatest hedge fund database ever used (2796 hedge funds including 801 dissolved), we investigate hedge funds performance using various asset-pricing models, including an extension form of Carhart's (1997) model combined with Fama & French (1998) Agarwal & Naik (2000) models and...

Modern aggregation theory and index number theory were introduced into monetary economics by Barnett (1980). The widely used Divisia monetary aggregates were based upon that paper. A key result upon which the rest of the theory depended was Barnett’s derivation of the user-cost price of...

This paper provides a review of the main features of asset pricing models. The review includes single-factor and multifactor models, extended forms of the Capital Asset Pricing Model with higher order co- moments, and asset pricing models conditional on time-varying volatility.