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alpha. Our approach improves out-of-sample portfolio performance and significantly alters asset allocation decisions …
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We develop a new approach for evaluating performance across hedge funds. Our approach allows for performance … decrease in performance with a new model formed with alternative factors that capture variance, correlation, liquidity, betting …
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Potential conflicts of interest arise when IPO underwriters allocate IPO shares to their affiliated funds. We hypothesize that such nepotism incentives affect IPO pricing. Using a novel hand-collected dataset, we find support for this hypothesis in a regression discontinuity design (RDD): a one...
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's performance, the prime broker determines the lending rate to cover its expected loss in case of a default. We then explore the …
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How much of entrepreneurial performance is sheer luck compared to talent, experience, education, and hard work? We … define luck as unexpected performance and look for an answer in a large survey of entrepreneurs. Accordingly, luck ranks last … in importance among various success factors and accounts for less than one third of performance variation. This ranking …
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explained by different individual or managerial performance. The gap is influenced more by individuals than by institutions …
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We solve the problem of optimal securitization for an issuer facing heterogeneous investors with arbitrary time and risk preferences. We show that the optimal securitization is characterized by multiple nonlinear tranches, and each investor gets a portfolio of these tranches. In particular, when...
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A common method of valuing the equity in highly leveraged transactions is the flows-to-equity method. When applying this method various formulas can be used to calculate the time-varying cost of equity. In this paper we show that some commonly used formulas are inconsistent with the assumptions...
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behavior and mechanism performance in these auctioned IPOs using detailed bidding data. The existence of some bids posted at …
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We study optimal securitization of defaultable assets in a continuous time setting. A financial intermediary can create a portfolio of defaultable assets and then sell it to outside investors. The default risk of the assets in the portfolio is determined by the unobservable costly effort exerted...
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