The subprime crisis was quite damaging for hedge funds. Using the local projection method (Jordà 2004, 2005, 2009), we forecast the dynamic responses of the betas of hedge fund strategies to macroeconomic and financial shocks-especially volatility and illiquidity shocks-over the subprime crisis...

This paper explores the idea that the increasing concentration of institutional ownership in equity markets makes stock prices more "fragile," i.e., more exposed to liquidity shocks to institutional investors. I argue that institutional stockholders with stricter redemption policies, who are...