This paper examines how the growth of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has affected the sensitivity of international capital flows to global financial conditions. Using data on individual emerging market funds worldwide, we employ a novel identification strategy that controls for unobservable...

We zero in on the expected returns of long-short portfolios based on 120 stock market anomalies by accounting for (1) effective bid-ask spreads, (2) post-publication effects, and (3) the modern era of trading technology that began in the early 2000s. Net of these effects, the average anomaly's...

There are many well documented behavioral biases in financial markets. Yet, analyzing U.S. equities reveals that less than 1.21% of returns are predictable in recent years. Given the high number of biases, why are returns not more predictable? We provide two pieces of new evidence for one...

Factor investing has become very popular during the last decades, especially with respect to equity markets. After extending Fama-French factors to corporate bond markets, recent research more often concentrates on the government bond space and reveals that there is indeed clear empirical...

Past studies typically have focused on whether people perceive more rare risk after experiencing catastrophic disasters. We show that people can also feel less risk with unexpected “lucky” disaster experience. By exploring a novel identification strategy based on households’ expectations,...

Stocks of firms with cash flows concentrated in the short-term (i.e., short duration stocks) pay a large premium over long duration stocks. I empirically demonstrate this premium: (i) is long-lived and strong even among large firms; (ii) subsumes the value and profitability premia; and (iii)...

As in continuous time, the nontrading region (NTR) in a mean-variance model with fixed, proportional, and quadratic trading costs is a singleton only for pure quadratic costs. Utility loss from costs is approximately proportional at small cost levels, and approximately constant at large cost...

Despite a vast theoretical literature that builds on costly information acquisition, there is no direct evidence on the importance of information costs in investors’ private information choices. Using a large sample of Chinese mutual fund managers’ visits to firm headquarters and exploiting...

Российскую версию этой статьи можно найти в: http://ssrn.com/abstract=3271830. Russian Abstract: Предложен новый тип показателя доходности инвестиционных проектов, имеющий...

The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=3261910. Russian Abstract: Дается обзор методов построения показателей доходности инвестиционных проектов с множественными...