The objectives are to discern how the three financial sectors' CDS spreads interrelate to each other and with three other risks under the full sample and two subperiods: The 2007 Great Recession, and the 2009 recovery, and to assess the impact of QE1 on those risks in the second subperiod. The...

This study simultaneously analyzes the relation between aggregate stock market returns and cash flows (net purchases of equity) from a broad array of investor groups in the United States over a long period of time from 1952 to 2004. We find strong evidence that quarterly flows are...

Financial basics and intuition stresses the importance of investment horizon for risk management and asset allocation. However, the beta parameter of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is invariant to the holding period. Such contradiction is due to the assumption of long-term independence...

The VIX, the stock market option-based implied volatility, strongly co-moves with measures of the monetary policy stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility (“uncertainty”), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases...

Asset owners (principals) typically do not manage their own investments and leave this job to delegated managers (agents). What is best for the asset owner, however, is usually not best for the fund manager. Additional agency conflicts arise when the asset owner does not know the quality and...

Using the vector autoregression (VAR) analysis, this study empirically documents the impulse response functions of financial stress and market risk premiums and performs a causality test of these two variables. The analysis of the monthly changes of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis...

This paper analyzes the life cycles of hedge funds. Using the Lipper TASS database it provides category and fund specific factors that affect the survival probability of hedge funds. The findings show that in general, investors chasing individual fund performance, thus increasing fund flows,...

The efficiency of traditional and stochastic interest rate risk measures is compared under one-, two-, and three-factor Gauss-Markov HJM term structure models, and for different immunization periods. The empirical analysis, run on the German Treasury bond market from January 2000 to December...

The aggregate portfolio of Chinese actively managed stock mutual funds exhibits a large and significantly positive alpha. Results from bootstrap simulations indicate that most Chinese active stock mutual fund managers have skill. A substantial amount of their outperformance can be attributed to...

Standard benchmarks that build exclusively on the size, value, and momentum effects can be problematic for evaluating mutual funds. Motivated by investment-based asset pricing, I show that investment and profitability convey useful information about future fund returns. However, such information...