The impact of the global financial crisis since 2007 has been deep and broad, blanketing the financial and economic landscape and hammering the hedge fund industry. Using both active and inactive hedge fund return data from the CISDM database from January of 1994 to March of 2009, we measure...

Fiscal imprudence and political wavering are frequently cited as the primary causes of Mexico's financial crisis of the 1980s. While these views have merit, they tend to overlook the seigniorage from money creation. Using the Cagan model and an econometric procedure that does not rely on any...

Purpose – This paper aims to assess the impact of the global financial crisis of 2007-09 on the risk structure of S&P 500 firms by examining their market, active, and residual risks before and during the crisis. Design/methodology/approach – The classic one-factor model is estimated for each...

Using the longest history of a U.S. equity market index, this paper simulates the return deviation and multiple deviation for Leveraged Exchange-Traded Products (LETPs) with different rebalancing frequencies, including daily, monthly, annually, and every five years, over various holding periods....

Purpose – This paper aims to assess the impact of the global financial crisis of 2007-09 on the risk structure of S&P 500 firms by examining their market, active, and residual risks before and during the crisis. Design/methodology/approach – The classic one-factor model is estimated for each...

Purpose – This paper aims to assess the impact of the global financial crisis of 2007‐09 on the risk structure of S&P 500 firms by examining their market, active, and residual risks before and during the crisis. Design/methodology/approach – The classic one‐factor model is estimated for...