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Working Paper
How Tax Efficient Are Equity Styles?
July 1, 2011
We explore the after-tax performance, tax exposure and tax efficiency of commonly used equity-style portfolios. We focus on equity styles based on size, value, growth and momentum, well known within the cross-sectional return landscape.
Working Paper
More Banks, Less Crime? The Real and Social Effects of Bank Competition
January 13, 2005
Using a unique sample of commercial loans and mergers between large banks, this paper provides microlevel (within-county) evidence linking credit conditions to economic development and finds a spillover effect on crime.
Working Paper
The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence from U.S. State Usury Laws in the 19th Century
January 24, 2007
The authors review the development of financial regulation through the lens of U.S. state usury laws in the 19th century. Among other things, they find evidence that lending activity was affected by rate ceilings.
Working Paper
Beyond Basis Basics: Leverage Demand and Deviations from the Law of One Price
February 7, 2020
Bases are driven by intermediaries’ cost of capital and the amount of leverage demand for an asset. Focusing on leverage demand, we find bases negatively predict futures and spot market returns with the same sign in both global equities and currencies.
Working Paper
The Returns to Entrepreneurial Investment: A Private Equity Premium Puzzle?
November 24, 2009
Entrepreneurs tend to concentrate investments in private equity. However, research shows that private equity returns are generally no higher than the market return on all publicly traded equity. We delve into explanations for this here.
Journal Article
The Role of Shorting, Firm Size and Time on Market Anomalies
May 1, 2013
The pervasiveness, robustness and magnitude of return premia associated with size, value and momentum has made them the focal point for discussions of market efficiency, etc.
Journal Article
Carry
November 7, 2013
An asset’s “carry” is its expected return assuming that market conditions, including its price, stay the same. We find that carry predicts returns both in the cross section and time series for a variety of different asset classes.
Journal Article
Value and Momentum Everywhere
June 1, 2013
We find consistent value and momentum return premia across eight diverse markets and asset classes, and a strong common factor structure among their returns.
Journal Article
An Analysis of Covariance Risk and Pricing Anomalies
January 1, 2003
Much research has focused on the relation between firm characteristics and mean returns, but this article examines the link between well‐known asset pricing “anomalies” and the covariance structure of returns.
Journal Article
Fact, Fiction, and the Size Effect
May 14, 2018
Despite its long and illustrious history, much confusion about the size effect remains. We examine common claims about the size effect and seek to clarify some of the misunderstanding surrounding it.