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Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
January 1, 2012
Tobias Moskowitz teams up with Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim, to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports. They reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost.
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Trading Costs
August 23, 2018
Using live trade data from a large institutional money manager over a 19-year period, we find actual trading costs to be an order of magnitude smaller than previous studies suggest.
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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.
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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.
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Trading Costs of Asset Pricing Anomalies
December 5, 2012
We examine the trading costs, net-of-cost returns and break-even fund sizes of equity strategies designed to capture several of the main asset pricing anomalies documented in the literature.
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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.
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Size Matters, If You Control Your Junk
January 22, 2015
When it comes to equity investing, size matters—and in a bigger way than once thought—but only when controlling for junk. We examine seven challenges that have been hurled at the size effect and dismantle each one by controlling for a firm's quality.
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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.
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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.
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Decision-Making Under the Gambler's Fallacy
March 11, 2015
Reviewing decisions made by judges, loan officers and umpires in high-stakes contexts, we find them to be most consistent with the "gambler's fallacy"—meaning they were based as much on their own previous decisions as on the facts they were weighing.