En este documento analizamos la correlación lineal y la dependencia de colas entre los fondos de cobertura denominados market neutral y la cartera de mercado condicionado en el ciclo económico. Documentamos que la baja correlación entre estos fondos y el índice S&P 500 resulta de la...

Do insiders trade on private information about earnings? We address this question exploiting the discontinuity in the term structure of option prices around the announcement date, to obtain a daily and forward-looking measure of the informativeness of the next earnings announcement. This measure...

The arrival of a public signal worsens the adverse selection problem if informed investors are risk averse. Precisely, the public signal reduces uncertainty which boosts informed investors' participation leading to a more toxic order flow. I confirm the model's empirical predictions by...