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performance of hedge funds both in the cross-section and over time. We measure uncertainty about volatility of the market …-taking incentives arising from performance-based compensation of hedge funds. …
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the performance of hedge funds both in the cross-section and over time. We measure uncertainty via volatility of aggregate …
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investor groups contribute to the negative performance externality from large outflows. Investment funds, as holders of mutual …-sophisticated ones, are the main receivers. These differences are due to investment funds reacting more strongly on past performance and …
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Traditional risk-adjusted performance measures, such as the Sharpe ratio, the Treynor index or Jensen’s alpha, based on … the mean-variance framework, are widely used to rank mutual funds. However, performance measures that consider risk by …-Fisher expansion and on the extreme value theory. Moreover, we construct a performance index similar to the Sharpe ratio using these …
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A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...
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We analyse questions of arbitrage in fnancial markets in which asset prices change in time as stationary stochastic processes. The main focus of the paper is on a model where the price vectors are independent and identically distributed. In the framework of this model, we find conditions that...
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Expanded separation portfolios ( Se ) and Treasurer’s portfolios T( Se ) are a sect of themselves. They arise out of risk-free assets and risky portfolios like other mutual funds. But their distinctive features set them apart from the common lot. This paper puts forth, firstly, a down-to-earth...
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In September 1997, the U.S. Treasury developed the TIPS market in order to achieve three important policy objectives: (1) to provide consumers with a class of assets that allows for hedging against real interest rate risk, (2) to provide holders of nominal contracts a means of hedging against...
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