This article analyzes the effect of liquidity risk on the performance of various hedge fund portfolio strategies. Similarly to Avramov et al. (2007), we find that, before accounting for the effect of liquidity risk, hedge fund portfolios that incorporate predictability in managerial skills...

This paper studies the eff ect of market belief risk on the cross-section of stock returns. Using actual and analyst EPS forecast data, we construct the market belief as the cross-sectional average of individual beliefs for all sample stocks, with individual belief de fined as the mean analyst...

In this article, we study the effect of liquidity risk on the performanceof various hedge fund portfolio strategies. The portfolio strategies in eachhedge fund style are formed by incorporating predictability in: (i) managerialskills, (ii) fund risk loadings, and (iii) benchmark returns. As...

This paper studies the effects of investors' heterogeneous beliefs on the trading volume, price volatility, and liquidity of assets. Following Kurz and Motolese (2008), we propose a theoretical model to show that the equilibrium asset price is linearly and positively correlated with market...