Two new methodologies are introduced to improve inference in the evaluation of mutual fund performance against benchmarks. First, the benchmark models are estimated using panel methods with both fund and time effects. Second, the non-normality of individual mutual fund returns is accounted for...

This paper compares trading costs for institutional investors subject to liquidity shocks, in auction and dealer markets. The batch auction restricts the institutions' ability to exploit informational advantages because of competition between institutions when they simultaneously submit orders....

This paper examines the effect of a change in the percentage of informed participants in an asset market on the variability of prices. The authors consider equilibrium in the asset market before the information is revealed to a subset of traders. They find that ex ante price variability is...

This paper examines persistence over time in the performance of fund managers responsible for making the investment decisions of UK pension funds. Previous work on UK pension funds found little evidence of fund manager persistence, but we argue that this may have been due to survivorship bias in...

This paper investigates the determinants of price quote revisions on the London Stock Exchange for a sample of highly liquid stocks over a two-week settlement period in September 1990. In our theoretical model the level of optimal price quotes set by market makers are a function of the expected...

This article examines the pattern of volatility over time of a series of commodity futures prices, and focuses in particular on the futures price variability as the maturity date of the futures contract approaches. In a rational expectations model of asymmetric information, the article provides...