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We present a general equilibrium model in which heterogeneous investors choose among bonds, stocks, and an Index Fund holding the market portfolio. We show that, under standard assumptions, an equilibrium exists. We then derive predictions for equilibrium asset prices, investor behavior, and...
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proposing to take long positions on “short assets” (e.g. inverse ETF), thereby considering short positions as active investment …
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This study shows that exchange-traded fund (ETF) misvaluation — based on return differentials between ETFs and their … primarily from the ETF, rather than the NAV price. Excess comovements are greater for funds with high commonality in demand …
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This paper develops a diagnostic tool for candidate performance measures that accounts for investor disagreement in mutual funds. We compare the evaluation for best clienteles, specified by an upper admissible performance bound, to the one for representative investors implicit in twelve models....
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Large-Scale Asset Purchases can impact the price of securities directly, when securities are targeted by the central bank, or indirectly through portfolio re-balancing of private investors. We quantify both the direct and the portfolio re-balancing impact, emphasizing the role of investor...
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The paper studies mutual funds' portfolio management and investors' capital allocations in a unified framework under mandatory portfolio disclosure. By modeling fund managers and investors simultaneously, I show that more skill managers produce better performance by trading more actively, which...
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benchmarks, and demonstrate how heterogeneous benchmarking generates a mechanism through which fundamental shocks propagate … across assets. Fluctuations in asset managers' capital invested for benchmarking purposes, scaled by the size of the economy … these benchmarking-induced spillovers by analyzing shock elasticities and cross-elasticities of price-dividend ratios, and …
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This chapter provides a perspective on the rapidly developing literature on investment performance evaluation. I use the stochastic discount factor approach to present and critique current performance measurement techniques in a unified setting. I offer a number of suggestions to improve...
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Hedge fund managers differ in ability and investors want to distinguish good ones from bad. Via the design of their investment strategies, better fund managers want to ease this inference problem while worse fund managers want to complicate it. We impose only the minimal restrictions on the...
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