This paper aims to evaluate the performance of A-Type Turkish equity funds between January 2009 and November 2014. This study period coincides with the period of quantitative easing during which the developing economies in financial markets have been influenced dramatically. Thanks to the...

We explore the transmission of the ECB's public sector asset purchase programme (PSPP) via the portfolio rebalancing of investment funds and their investors. Evidence for this channel would validate several theoretical propositions and provide insights into market perceptions of intervention...

We identify a component of monetary policy news that is extracted from high-frequency changes in risky asset prices. These surprises, which we call "risk shifts", are uncorrelated, and therefore complementary, to risk-free rate surprises. We show that (i) risk shifts capture the lion's share of...