Università della Svizzera italiana

Essays in institutional investors and financial markets

Cötelioglu, Efe ; Plazzi, Alberto (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO002.

I use empirical methods to study the effect of institutional investors on financial markets. My studies provide novel evidence on the commonality in liquidity of fixed-income securities, the liquidity provision of hedge funds and mutual funds in equity markets, and the information diffusion from credit default swaps to equities.

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Optimal investments in volatility

Hafner, Reinhold ; Wallmeier, Martin

In: Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2008, vol. 22, no. 2, p. 147-167

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Performance measurement of hedge funds using data envelopment analysis

Eling, Martin

In: Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2006, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 442-471

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Frictions, behavioral biases and active portfolio management

Eisele, Alexander ; Nowak, Eric (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014ECO012.

The three chapters of this thesis contribute to the following research questions: (i) What is the role of agency frictions for the performance of mutual funds? (ii) What is the role of market frictions for the performance of hedge funds? (iii) Do hedge funds profit from the behavioral biases of other market participants? The first chapter of this thesis comprises the article "Are Star Funds...