Recent asset pricing studies demonstrate the relevance of incorporating coskewness in asset pricing models, and illustrate how this component helps to explain the time variation of ex-ante market risk premiums. This paper analyzes the role of coskewness in mutual fund performance evaluation and...

The Chinese economy has shown an average annual growth rate of 10% per year during the last 20 years, transforming it into the most important consumer of a broad range of commodities. With this in sight, this work aims to measure the impact of China’s expansion on commodity prices and...

Since the price of gold began climbing dramatically over a decade ago, gold-related industries have received a great deal of attention from investors. Moreover, investing in gold mutual funds has become a promising alternative to investing in gold directly because of the inherent difficulties...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine the performance of Spanish mutual funds between 1999 and 2003. Design/methodology/approach - The methodolgy uses the stochastic discount factor (SDF) framework across a variety of models developed in the recent asset pricing literature. This approach is a...

We evaluate a strategy that minimizes the specific risk of investing in a reasonable number of mutual funds. Our results are consistent with the previous studies, which suggest that actively managed mutual funds are not totally diversified. Our strategy behaves well in terms of diversification,...

This article analyses the effect of short-selling constraints on market volatility. Between 2011 and 2012, two different types of short-sale bans were imposed on the Spanish stock market: first, a partial ban on financial companies, and later, a total ban affecting all stocks. Using panel data...