Agarwal, Vikas; Ruenzi, Stefan; Weigert, Florian - 2015 - This Version: May 10, 2015
We develop a new tail risk measure for hedge funds to examine the impact of tail risk on fund performance and to identify the sources of tail risk. We find that tail risk affects the cross-sectional variation in fund returns, and investments in both, tailsensitive stocks as well as options,...