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Responsible Investing: The ESG-Efficient Frontier – Original Paper Data

October 29, 2020 - Lasse H. Pedersen Shaun Fitzgibbons Lukasz Pomorski

This the original data set used in “Responsible Investing: The ESG-Efficient Frontier” (Pedersen, Fitzgibbons and Pomorski). It contains the total returns of the value-weighted and equal-weighted portfolios used in the paper.

Working Paper

Measuring Systemic Risk

April 23, 2010 - Viral V. Acharya Lasse H. Pedersen Thomas Philippon Matthew P. Richardson

We present a simple model of systemic risk and show how each financial institution’s contribution to systemic risk can be measured and priced—its propensity to be undercapitalized when the system as a whole is undercapitalized, which increases in its leverage, volatility, correlation, and tail-dependence.

Working Paper

Carry Trades and Currency Crashes

November 1, 2008 - Markus K. Brunnermeier Stefan Nagel Lasse H. Pedersen

Is there a strong link between a currency carry strategy and crash risk? We find that investing in high-interest-rate currencies while borrowing in low-interest-rate currencies delivers negatively skewed returns.

Working Paper

Generalized Recovery

March 1, 2016 - Christian Skov Jensen David Lando Lasse H. Pedersen

We shed new light, both theoretically and empirically, on the Holy Grail in financial economics: decoding probabilities and risk preferences from asset prices.

Working Paper

Early Option Exercise: Never Say Never

March 18, 2016 - Mads Vestergaard Jensen Lasse H. Pedersen

A classic rule in financial economics: Never exercise a call option and never convert a convertible bond, except just before expiration or dividend payments. This paper shows how this rule breaks down when financial frictions are introduced.

Journal Article

Quality Minus Junk

October 9, 2013 - Cliff Asness Andrea Frazzini Lasse H. Pedersen

We show that a quality-minus-junk (QMJ) factor that goes long high-quality stocks and shorts low-quality stocks earns significant risk-adjusted returns in the U.S. and globally. Also, controlling for quality resurrects the otherwise moribund size effect.

Working Paper

Embedded Leverage

November 1, 2012 - Andrea Frazzini Lasse H. Pedersen

Embedded leverage—the amount of market exposure per unit of committed capital—has become an important feature of financial instruments. We study embedded leverage in equity options, index options and ETFs, and how it affects the required returns.

Working Paper

Economics with Market Liquidity Risk

September 19, 2019 - Viral V. Acharya Lasse H. Pedersen

We discuss the effects of market liquidity risk on asset pricing, investment management, corporate finance, banking, financial crises, macroeconomics, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and other economic areas.

Working Paper

Responsible Investing: The ESG-Efficient Frontier

October 10, 2019 - Lasse H. Pedersen Shaun Fitzgibbons Lukasz Pomorski

Combining several large data sets, we compute the empirical ESG-efficient frontier and show the costs and benefits of responsible investing.

Working Paper

Repeated Auctions With Endogenous Selling

February 1, 2003 - Nicolae Gârleanu Lasse H. Pedersen

Auction theory studies the expected revenue to an owner committed to selling—as when a government sells an oil field, where the sale decision is unrelated to its quality. This paper addresses questions raised by auctions where owners choose to sell.