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Capocci, Daniel - EconWPA - 2002

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...

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Building a Better Fund of Hedge Funds: A Fractal and Alpha - Stable Distribution Approach

Olszewski, Yan - EconWPA - 2005

Markowitz’s (1952) portfolio theory has permeated financial institutions over the past 50 years. Assuming that returns are normally distributed, Markowitz suggests that portfolio optimization should be performed in a mean-variance framework. With the emergence of hedge funds and their...

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Hedge Fund Performance and Persistence in Bull and Bear Markets

Daniel, Capocci; Albert, Corhay; Georges, Hübner - EconWPA - 2004

Hedge Fund Performance and Persistence in Bull and Bear Markets DANIEL P.J. CAPOCCI University of Liege - Economics, Business Administration and Social Sciences A. CORHAY University of Liege - Department of Financial Management; University of Maastricht (formerly University of Limburg) -...

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Performance and Risk Measurement Challenges For Hedge Funds: Empirical Considerations

Blum, Peter; Dacorogna, Michel; Jaeger, Lars - EconWPA - 2003

Hedge funds are said to be rewarding investments because they have favourable risk-return characteristics on a standalone basis, and because they offer valuable diversification with respect to traditional stock and bond markets. On the other hand, hedge fund returns have a number of...

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Entry & Exit: The Lifecyle of a Hedge Fund

Gimbel, Thomas; Gupta, Francis; Pines, Dan - EconWPA - 2004

Using data from the TASS/Tremont hedge fund database, this article performs an empirical analysis of the evolution of the hedge fund industry within an industrial organization framework.

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Introducing a scale of market shocks

Zumbach, Gilles O.; Dacorogna, Michel M.; Olsen, Jorgen L. - EconWPA - 2004

importance of the market movements. These indices are based on the price volatility and are computed by integrating mapped asset …

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Should Stock Market Indexes Time Varying Correlations Be Taken Into Account? A Conditional Variance Multivariate Approach

SULEIMANN, Ryan - EconWPA - 2003

ﬁnancial instruments in the portfolio and on the volatility of those returns.This task is relatively simple if the correlations … and volatilities do not change over time.But in reality both volatility and stock market indexes’ correlations do change …

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A Self-Consistent Model for the Forward Price Dynamics

Makhankov, Vlad - EconWPA - 2003

applications in power industries. This model with stochastic volatility of the forward price is built using the ideas and equations … of stochastic differential geometry in order to close the system of equations for the forward price and its volatility …. Stationary distributions for the forward price volatility are found analytically as well as the forward price curves in the one …

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Financial contagion, interest rates and the role of the exchange rate as shock absorber in Central and Eastern Europe

Habib, Maurizio Michael - EconWPA - 2002

affected by ‘vo- latility contagion’ coming from emerging markets. I find also some partial support for the ‘volatility …

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Volatility, Heterogeneous Agents and Chaos

Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004

exemplifies how heterogeneity concerning the volatility of two stochastic processes may lead to chaotic motion; the second is a …

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