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specialization, wealth inequality, stock trading intensity, liquidity and return volatility. …
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Ratios that indicate the statistical significance of a fund’s alpha typically appraise its performance. A growing literature suggests that even in the absence of any ability to predict returns, holding options positions on the benchmark assets or trading frequently can significantly enhance...
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negatively proportional to the risk contribution of the arbitrage position captured by the product of the squared return …
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In most industrialized economies, financial wealth is distributed far more unequally than income. According to Wolff (2007) more than half of the American households possess almost no productive capital while realizing about 20 percent of national income. This mismatch poses a problem for the...
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We study how competition in the mutual fund industry affects stock market liquidity. We argue that mutual fund families operate as multi-product firms, jointly choosing fees, performance and number of funds and sharing common research facilities. The family-based organization generates economies...
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-financial risk. We show that the very same factors behind the drive to city agglomeration also affect both the degree of portfolio … diversification and proximity investing by influencing investor information and risk. …
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We exploit the restrictions of intertemporal portfolio choice in the presence of non-financial income risk to design …
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currencies. The exchange rate effect of separate risk hedging is economically significant and amounts to a return difference of 3 …. Furthermore, they actively manage the portfolio risk of their speculative positions through hedging positions in correlated ….6 percent over a 5 day event window between currencies with high and low risk hedging value. The results of the classical event …
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After negative shocks, investors with short trading horizons are inclined or forced to sell their holdings to a larger extent than investors with longer trading horizons. This may amplify the effects of market-wide shocks on stock prices. We test the relevance of this mechanism by exploiting the...
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component that is attributed to risk-averse liquidity provision and a component that is attributed to private information or …
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