Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- References -- Part I: Statistical Methodologies -- Chapter 1: Preliminaries -- 1.1 Sample -- 1.2 Winsorization and Truncation -- 1.3 Newey and West (1987) Adjustment -- 1.4 Summary -- References -- Chapter 2:...

Growth options increase idiosyncratic skewness and reduce risk exposure, and thereby create the appearance of profitability, distress, lotteryness, and volatility anomalies, influencing their returns via the channel of idiosyncratic skewness. To capture these effects, we estimate expected...

While it is established that idiosyncratic volatility has a negative impact on the cross-section of future stock returns, the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and future hedge fund returns is largely unexplored. We document that hedge funds with high idiosyncratic volatility...