There is a substantial divide between evidence in the empirical literature and survey evidence in the financial press regarding the influence of sell-side analyst recommendations on the trading of mutual funds. While surveys of fund managers suggest that they assign little weight to analyst...

Quantitative research analysts (Quants) produce in-depth quantitative and econometric modeling of market anomalies to assist sell-side analysts and institutional clients with stock selection strategies. Quants are associated with more efficient analyst forecasting behavior on anomaly predictors...

This paper provides a first step in developing a system-wide stress simulation. The model incorporates several important features of the financial system. These include several types of institution (including banks and non-banks) and how their actions may propagate and amplify stress. Rather...

We compile a rich dataset that links institutional investors' position level holdings with corporate bond characteristics and estimate demand elasticities with respect to critical sources of risk. Persistence in institutions' holdings provide us with an instrument to isolate exogenous movements...

Using a novel return-based method to detect allocations of corporate bond offerings, which are underpriced on average, we find that mutual funds most active in the primary market generate significant alpha and outperform those that are less active. Our evidence suggests that underwriters direct...

We explore the ties between bonds and individual dealers formed through home advantage and the persistence of previous underwriting relationships. Building on these connections, we show that the introduction of the leverage ratio for the European banks had a large impact on exposed bonds'...

Corporate bond mutual funds engage in liquidity transformation, raising concerns among academics and policymakers that correlated redemptions will destabilize the corporate bond market. However, estimating regressions that focus within issuer-quarter, I find little evidence that redemptions or...

I document a (within-fund) hump-shaped relation between fund size and subsequent fund performance among U.S. corporate bond mutual funds. When funds are small, they exhibit increasing returns to scale but when they become large, they exhibit decreasing returns to scale. This sharply contrasts...

This paper examines the relation between portfolio concentration and investment performance in corporate bond mutual funds. Using detailed holdings data, we construct portfolio concentration measures at the firm, industry, and credit rating levels. We find that portfolio concentration is...