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to underestimate risk measures such as volatility (i.e. standard deviation). In order to encompass for such serial … random walk model with time varying parameters is largely used in the risk industry for Value-at-Risk4 purposes. Its main …
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When sellers set the price for ex-ante unobservable and ex-post unenforceable quality, price signals credence quality. Hedge funds resemble incomplete long-term contracts for credence goods under buyer-determined auctions. I show that hedge funds' ability to solicit investments at higher...
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We examine the relative weights hedge fund investors attach to past information in the fund selection process. The weighting scheme appears inconsistent with the one of econometric forecast models that predict fund returns, alphas or Sharpe ratios. In particular, investor flows are highly...
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study how these endogenous effects influence traditional measures of risk-adjusted performance. We show that structural …
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When an investor delegates portfolio management to a hedge fund manager, whose risk-taking preference governs? Single …-period models with option-like incentives suggest stark variation in risk-taking across fund value and time as fund managers … risk-taking surface. Cross-sectional pooling of normalized returns allows precise estimation of the normalized risk …
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study how these endogenous effects influence traditional measures of risk-adjusted performance. We show that structural …
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Insurers issuing segregated fund policies apply dynamic hedging to mitigate risks related to guarantees embedded in … such policies. A typical industry practice consists of using fund mapping regressions to represent basis risk stemming from … the imperfect correlation between the underlying fund and its corresponding hedging instruments. The current work …
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The paper singles out the key roles of US equity skewness and kurtosis in the determination of the market premia embedded in Hedge Fund returns. We propose a conditional higher-moment asset pricing model with location, trading and higher-moment factors in order to describe the dynamics of the...
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The paper singles out the key roles of US equity skewness and kurtosis in the determination of the market premia embedded in Hedge Fund returns. We propose a conditional higher-moment asset pricing model with location, trading and higher-moment factors in order to describe the dynamics of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107364