Sökning: "Hedge funds"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Hedge funds.
1. Hedge funds and international capital flows
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four chapters that investigate the performance and capital flows of hedge funds. The first two chapters of the thesis focus on hedge funds that have a pure emerging market strategy. LÄS MER
2. Essays on Investor Behavior and Trading Strategies in International Financial Markets
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contains four articles that in different ways inform on investor behavior in international financial markets, their impact on the underlying market, and the trading strategies that they pursue.Article I studies how hedge funds herd in currency future contracts and how it is affecting the underlying market. LÄS MER
3. Zero magic : Shifting the Valuation Convention
Sammanfattning : Zero Magic is a trick for the financial markets, which has the capacity to undermine the perceived value of a publicly traded company and profit from this. Short selling is a way of profiting from loss: Making money if and when a target company loses in value. LÄS MER
4. Empirical Essays in Finance
Sammanfattning : Stock Price Elasticity and Control Ownership. Stocks included in the S&P 500 experience abnormal returns. Supporting a demand pressure explanation, this paper documents that the price impact is larger for stock of which a significant fraction is held by controlling shareholders. LÄS MER
5. More Roads for the Money
Sammanfattning : In order to keep the quality of the road networks at an acceptable level, large amount of investments for rehabilitation and maintenance activities are necessary in addition to investments in new and reconstructed roads. Therefore, an efficient allocation of road investment funds is of great economic importance. LÄS MER