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Journal Article
Decoding Inside Information
May 21, 2012
The authors employ a simple empirical strategy to identify “opportunistic” insider trading — that is, purchases or sales by traders with favored access to private information about the given firm — and conclude that portfolio strategy that focuses solely on “opportunistic” traders yields value-weighted abnormal returns of 82 basis points per month.
Journal Article
The Canadian Dollar as a Reserve Currency
April 2, 2014
A clear reflection of Canada’s relative economic resilience during the global financial crisis of 2007‒2009 is the growth in the share of foreign exchange reserves that other countries hold in Canadian-dollar securities, particularly those issued by the Government of Canada.
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Modelling the Asset-Allocation and Liability Strategy for Canada’s Foreign Exchange Reserves
April 2, 2013
The 2007‒2009 global financial crisis led to rapid accumulation of foreign reserves in both developed and emerging countries and triggered discussions of how these reserves should be managed.
Journal Article
Does Active Management Pay? New International Evidence
August 11, 2015
One of the most important decisions for an equity investor is whether to manage investments actively or passively.
Journal Article
Initiating Bargaining
June 9, 2011
The authors use a unique data set — more than 1,200 high-stakes poker tournaments — to investigate whether the success of bargaining and the agreed upon terms depend on the characteristics of the person who initiates negotiations (the "initiator").
Working Paper
Style Investing: Evidence From Mutual Fund Flows
March 19, 2004
The number of mutual funds in the U.S. has risen over the past decade and is so large that individual investors are unlikely able to analyze each fund in existence. How do investors choose from such a multitude of funds? We answer this question here.
Working Paper
Is Bigger Better? Size and Performance in Pension Plan Management
June 1, 2011
Using a proprietary dataset, we examine the relationship between size and performance of asset management within defined benefit pension plans. We find a larger plan size is associated with better performance of the entire pension plan portfolio.
Working Paper
Investing in Disappearing Anomalies
December 1, 2013
It is important to allow for a prolonged decay when studying anomalies or their impact on portfolio choice. We propose a framework for modeling anomalies that specifically allows for a gradual disappearance.
Working Paper
Acting on the Most Valuable Information: “Best Idea” Trades of Mutual Fund Managers
March 17, 2009
This paper proposes an ex ante proxy for the ranking of mutual fund trades. We find that the most attractive trades—the “best ideas"—beat the benchmarks by up to about 0.30% per month and outperform other fund trades by even higher margins.