Most of hedge funds databases are now keeping history of dead funds in order to control biases in empirical analysis. It is then possible to use these data for the analysis of hedge funds lifetimes and survivorship. This paper proposes two nonparametric speci fications of duration models. First,...

The focus of the paper is the nonparametric estimation of an instrumental regression function f defined by conditional moment restrictions stemming from a structural econometric model: E [Y - f (Z) | W] = 0, and involving endogenous variables Y and Z and instruments W. The function f is the...

High frequency transaction prices exhibit two major characteristics: they are discrete in level and only exist at random transaction dates. In this paper, we seek to model transaction price dynamics, taking into account these two features. We specify the transaction price process as a Markov...

A characteristic of hedge funds is not only an active portfolio management, but also the allocation of portfolio performance between different accounts, which are the accounts for the external investors and an account for the management firm, respectively. Despite a lack of transparency in hedge...