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Private debt funds are the fastest growing segment of the private capital market. We evaluate their risk-adjusted returns, applying a cash-flow based method to form a replicating portfolio that mimics their risk profiles. Using both equity and debt benchmarks to measure risk, a typical private...
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clustering in hedge fund left tail abnormal returns is positively related to negative liquidity shocks. These patterns have been … interpreted as evidence that hedge funds suffer from liquidity shock induced contagion. We provide novel tests that demonstrate … these patterns result from model misspecification and time-varying heteroskedasticity rather than liquidity shock induced …
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I demonstrate that much of the time series variation in the credit spread on high yield bonds is attributable to changes in the “credit risk premium” rather than changes in expected default losses. The credit risk premium is the expected excess return investors earn from bearing default risk...
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commercial real estate setting, where (il)liquidity is a defining characteristic of the asset class. Empirical tests confirm the … estate asset returns, and pro-cyclical liquidity variation in private real estate markets …
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explanatory power for yield spreads, controlling for liquidity, credit risk and other factors. The effect of insurer clustering on …
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explanatory power for yield spreads, controlling for liquidity, credit risk and other factors. The effect of fire-sale risk on …
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The biggest and most well-known unsolved problem in academic finance is famously referred to as the Equity Premium Puzzle. It refers to the unexplained phenomenon that for over 100 years the average return on a well-diversified portfolio of equities has far outperformed that of risk-free,...
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of the demand for safe government debt to currency unhedged and hedged excess returns in a sample of US mutual funds. We find evidence of active rebalancing towards government bonds that offer relatively higher returns on an unhedged basis, in particular...
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We present a new approach for estimating small business equity returns. This approach applies the Merton (1974) credit model to the returns on entrepreneurial business credit card debt securitizations and solves for the implied equity returns for the small businesses owned by the cardholders....
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