Annual Conference

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Investment Finance

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May 2023

We exploit a unique dataset to study how the information sets of retail and institutional investors evolve over time and how changes in investors’ information sets relate to stock price dynamics. Changes in stock following are positively related to future stock returns at horizons shorter than one...
Keywords: Investments , attention, information set, news
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Annual Conference

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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2022

We document characteristics-based return anomalies in a large cross-section (>4,000) of crypto assets. Cryptocurrency returns exhibit momentum in the largest-cap group, reversals in other size groups, and strong crypto value and network adoption premia, from which we derive two novel factors to a...
Keywords: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, DeFi, Factor Models, Network Effect, Market Segmentation
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Annual Conference

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Investment Finance

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May 2023

We find that option expensiveness, as measured by delta-hedged option returns, is higher for low-ESG stocks, indicating that investors pay a premium in the option market to hedge ESG-related uncertainty. We estimate this ESG premium to be about 0.3% per month. All three components of ESG contribute ...
Keywords: ESG, risk premium, delta-hedged option return
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Annual Conference

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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows, Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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May 2022

Using comprehensive account-level data from 2016 to 2019, we examine retail investor trading behavior in the Chinese stock market. We separate millions of retail investors into five groups by their account sizes and document strong heterogeneity in their trading dynamics and performance. Retail inve...
Keywords: Retail investors, Chinese stock market, Return predictability, Information content
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Annual Conference

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Investment Finance

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May 2018

We study actual trading transactions that are darker than all “dark pools,” as they are truly invisible to the marketplace both pre- and post-trade. Using a proprietary dataset of institutional trades, we analyze internal crosses – transactions which allow institutions to match purchases and s...
Keywords: Institutional trading, Cross Trading, Inter-Fund Trade, Asset Management, Economies of Scale, Trading Cost, Best Execution
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