We analyse the dynamic behavior of conditional volatility in commodity markets using a novel, manually collected dataset of daily price ranges over a time span of more than 140 years, which allows more precise daily volatility estimates than are otherwise prevalent in the commodity literature....

This paper analyzes daily wheat price volatility over an observation period of more than 140 years, using daily high and low prices of futures contracts traded at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), starting in 1877. We find that volatility differences between the identified regimes is much more...

The phrase 'private equity' became widespread in the late 1980s following major buyout fund activity. What has been neglected for some time is the existence of listed private equity - an exposure through a share in a private equity company traded on a stock exchange. While the listed market is...

We analyze Chicago based daily wheat price volatility over more than 140 years using a novel data set of daily high and low futures prices starting in 1877. We identify five long-run regimes and find that that volatility shifts between regimes are statistically more pronounced than fluctuations...

This paper studies the relationship between portfolio diversification and fund performance, based on an unexplored, hand-collected dataset of buyout funds. The dataset comprises detailed information at the level of portfolio companies, which allows measuring the concentration of the fund...