The paper builds an econometric model for estimating the volatility of unobserved efficient price change using tick by tick data. We model the joint density of the marked point process of duration and tick by tick returns within an ACD-GARCH framework. We first model the duration variable as an...

This paper studies the joint distribution of tick by tick returns and durations between trades. Returns are decomposed into changes in full information prices and microstructure noise, but the noise is modeled in accordance with various models of market microstructure allowing rich correlation...

Between 2001 and 2007, annual institutional funding in highly leveraged loans went up from $32 billion to $426 billion, accounting for nearly 70% of the jump in total syndicated loan issuance over the same period. Did the inflow of institutional funding in the syndicated loan market lead to...

One of the most important developments in the corporate loan market over the past decade has been the growing participation of institutional investors. As lenders, institutional investors routinely receive private information about borrowers. However, most of these investors also trade in public...

Previous literature has found that stock returns comove more than fundamentals. In this paper, I document the role of institutional clienteles in generating the comovement. To define clienteles, I apply clustering algorithms to institutional holdings. I find that the majority of institutional...

Basic economic principles suggest that a well-known trading strategy offers little economic profit. In this paper, we investigate whether skilled hedge fund managers are more likely to pursue unique investment strategies that result in superior performance. We propose a measure of the...

We investigate whether skilled hedge fund managers are more likely to pursue unique investment strategies that result in superior performance. We propose a measure of the distinctiveness of a fund's investment strategy based on historical fund return data. We call the measure the "Strategy...