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The returns to hedge funds and other alternative investments are often highly serially correlated in sharp contrast to the returns of more traditional investment vehicles such as long-only equity portfolios and mutual funds. In this paper, we explore several sources of such serial correlation...
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We investigate an index of returns on professionally managed currency funds and a subset of returns from 34 individual currency fund managers. Over the period 1990-2006, excess returns earned by currency fund managers have averaged 25 basis points per month. We examine the relationship of these...
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We provide a model of closed-end fund pricing which includes investors who do not form expectations correctly and allows for salient country-specific news to affect this expectation formation process. We use panel data on prices and net asset values of closed- end country funds to examine...
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, suggesting that investor 'sentiment' is a component of the price of a fund and not its NAV. Estimation of an unobserved … movements in the host country's stock market and overly sensitive to variation in the U.S. and world stock markets. This …
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segmented. While industrial, office and retail properties exist all around the world, they are not economic substitutes because … attribute a substantial amount of the correlation across world property markets to the effects of changes in GNP, suggesting …
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A key criticism of the existing empirical literature on the risk-return relation relates to the relatively small amount of conditioning information used to model the conditional mean and conditional volatility of excess stock market returns. To the extent that financial market participants have...
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This paper tests if real and financial linkages between countries can explain why movements in the world's largest … between the world's 5 largest economies and about 40 other markets to decompose the cross-country factor loadings into: direct … to be the most important determinant of how movements in the world's largest markets affect financial markets around the …
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We analyze cross-sectional and time series information from forty-seven equity markets around the world, to consider …
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Volatility permeates modern financial theories and decision making processes. As such, accurate measures and good forecasts of future volatility are critical for the implementation and evaluation of asset pricing theories. In response to this, a voluminous literature has emerged for modeling the...
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-history assets, but for the shorter-history assets as well. To account for the remaining parameter uncertainty, or estimation risk … the value of using the combined sample of histories and accounting for estimation risk, as compared to truncating the … sample to produce equal-length histories or ignoring estimation risk by using maximum-likelihood estimates …
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