Ang, Andrew; Gorovyy, Sergiy; Inwegen, Gregory B. van - In: Journal of Financial Economics 102 (2011) 1, pp. 102-126
We investigate the leverage of hedge funds in the time series and cross-section. Hedge fund leverage is counter-cyclical to the leverage of listed financial intermediaries and decreases prior to the start of the financial crisis in mid-2007. Hedge fund leverage is lowest in early 2009 when the...