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This paper provides evidence for a causal effect of equity prices on corporate investment and employment. We use fire sales by distressed equity funds during the 2007--2009 financial crisis to identify substantial exogenous underpricing. Firms whose stocks are most underpriced have considerably...
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This paper seeks to present a brief overview of the developments in the Indian mutual fund industry since the financial crisis of 2007. The broad developments show that while recovery in the industry post-crisis has been quite robust, a tendency towards risk aversion, akin to a global trend, has...
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The 2008-2009 global financial crisis has raised new questions about the relationship between equity fund flows and stock market returns. This paper analyses it using US monthly data over the period 2000:1-2015:08. A VAR-GARCH(1,1)-in-mean model with a BEKK representation is estimated, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479824
The 2008-2009 global financial crisis has raised new questions about the relationship between equity fund flows and stock market returns. This paper analyses it using US monthly data over the period 2000:1-2015:08. A VAR-GARCH(1,1)-in-mean model with a BEKK representation is estimated, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482859
The performance of hedge funds is of interest to investors looking for ways of generating value over passive strategies, particularly in bad times. This study used the Hedge Index database with over 9500 hedge funds to analyse, in depth, the performance of ten major strategies, during and after...
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The 2008-2009 global financial crisis has raised new questions about the relationship between equity fund flows and stock market returns. This paper analyses it using US monthly data over the period 2000:1-2015:08. A VAR-GARCH(1,1)-in-mean model with a BEKK representation is estimated, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990997
The 2008-2009 global financial crisis has raised new questions about the relationship between equity fund flows and stock market returns. This paper analyses it using US monthly data over the period 2000:1-2015:08. A VAR-GARCH(1,1)-in-mean model with a BEKK representation is estimated, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987395
This paper studies the trading behavior of U.S. actively managed equity mutual funds during the COVID-19 market crash. We show that Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) funds helped to stabilize the market by contributing to the resiliency of ESG stocks, but interestingly non-ESG funds...
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Using proprietary monthly holdings data from Morningstar, we show that Environmental, Social, and Governance funds’ trading during the Covid-19 market crash was consistent with the choices of their clientele. Thus, ESG funds helped to stabilize the market for ESG stocks, but interestingly...
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This paper provide evidence of momentum strategy selection and investment strategy switch under different market state for 207 mutual funds. The test are designed to examine the impact of different strategy and evaluate the performance under specific conditions. The study in this paper confirm...
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