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Leverage Aversion and Risk Parity

January 1, 2012 - Cliff Asness Andrea Frazzini Lasse H. Pedersen

In recent years, a new approach to asset allocation called risk parity (RP) has been gaining in popularity among practitioners.

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Slow-Moving Capital

May 1, 2007 - Mark L. Mitchell Lasse H. Pedersen Todd C. Pulvino

Unlike textbook arbitrageurs who instantaneously trade when prices deviate from fundamental values, real-world arbitrageurs must overcome various frictions.

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Modeling Sovereign Yield Spreads: A Case Study of Russian Debt

February 1, 2003 - Darrell Duffie Lasse H. Pedersen Kenneth J. Singleton

In this paper, we construct a model for pricing sovereign debt that accounts for the risks of both default and restructuring, and allows for compensation for illiquidity.

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Liquidity and Asset Prices

January 1, 2005 - Yakov Amihud Haim Mendelson Lasse H. Pedersen

Liquidity is a complex concept.

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Sharpening the Arithmetic of Active Management

February 22, 2018 - Lasse H. Pedersen

Does the dictum that the return to active management must equal that of passive management hold in the real world? This paper explores the assumptions and possible market impact.

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Low-Risk Investing Without Industry Bets

August 21, 2014 - Cliff Asness Andrea Frazzini Lasse H. Pedersen

The strategy of buying safe low-beta stocks while shorting (or underweighting) riskier high-beta stocks has been shown to deliver significant risk-adjusted returns.

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Market Liquidity and Funding Liquidity

November 26, 2008 - Markus K. Brunnermeier Lasse H. Pedersen

The funding of traders affects — and is affected by — market liquidity in a profound way.

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Asset Pricing With Liquidity Risk

June 7, 2004 - Viral V. Acharya Lasse H. Pedersen

This paper presents a simple theoretical model that helps explain how asset prices are affected by liquidity risk — the inability to find buyers or sellers of securities at will — and commonality in liquidity. This liquidity-adjusted capital asset pricing model (CAPM) provides a unified framework for understanding the various channels through which liquidity risk may affect asset prices.

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Regulating Systemic Risk

May 1, 2009 - Viral V. Acharya Lasse H. Pedersen Thomas Philippon Matthew P. Richardson

Systemic risk is the risk that the failure and distress of a significant part of the financial sector reduces the availability of credit which in turn may adversely affect the real economy.

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Dynamic Trading With Predictable Returns and Transactions Costs

November 1, 2013 - Nicolae Gârleanu Lasse H. Pedersen

Active investors and asset managers — such as hedge funds, mutual funds and proprietary traders — try to predict security returns and trade to profit from their predictions.