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-generating strategy typically lowers the fund's risk-adjusted excess return due to frictions such as price pressure. When the manager is … via both management and incentive fees, we show that (i) the high-powered incentive fees encourage excessive risk taking … sufficiently poor fund performances substantially curtail managerial risk-taking, provide strong incentives to de-leverage, and …
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This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant-level information from the U.S. Census Bureau. A typical target firm improves its production efficiency in the three years after an activist intervention, and the improvements are most...
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We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk. To create our hedge target, we extract … hedge portfolios. We discipline the exercise by using third-party ESG scores of firms to model their climate risk exposures … managing climate risk …
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idiosyncratic risk than a comparable U.S. firm. Country characteristics help explain variation in the level of idiosyncratic risk …, but less so than firm characteristics. Idiosyncratic risk falls as government stability and respect for the rule of law … improve. Idiosyncratic risk is positively related to stock market development but negatively related to bond market …
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This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the … United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk at the industry level. We … then combine our estimates of persistent labor income risk with measures of exposure to international trade to analyze the …
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A large empirical literature documents a rise in wage inequality in the American economy. It is silent on whether the increase in inequality is due to greater heterogeneity in the components of earnings that are predictable by agents or whether it is due to greater uncertainty faced by agents....
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This paper examines the welfare consequences of social safety nets in developing economies relative to developed economies. Using panel surveys of households in Indonesia and the United States, we find that food consumption falls by approximately ten percent when individuals become unemployed in...
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power for expected returns across a range of equity characteristic portfolios and non-equity asset classes, with risk price … estimates that are of the same sign and similar in magnitude. Positive exposure to capital share risk earns a positive risk …
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of banks argue that compensation for bearing systematic risk is not part of bank output. We apply these models and find …
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-sectional differences in response to liquidity risk depend on the banks' shares of core deposit funding. By contrast, differences across …
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