1.
Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 20 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 18 May 2020
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Zurich, Department of Banking and Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads
22,546
2.
The 7 Reasons Most Machine Learning Funds Fail (Presentation Slides)
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 06 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 04 Oct 2018
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
Downloads
21,172
3.
An Inconvenient Fact: Private Equity Returns & The Billionaire Factory
University of Oxford, Said Business School, Working Paper
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 15 Jun 2020
Last Revised: 15 Jul 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads
20,772
4.
Building Diversified Portfolios that Outperform Out-of-Sample
Journal of Portfolio Management, 2016; https://doi.org/10.3905/jpm.2016.42.4.059.
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 17 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 17 Jul 2019
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
Downloads
19,692
5.
Squaring Venture Capital Valuations with Reality
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 22 Apr 2017
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Squaring Venture Capital Valuations with Reality
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 22 Apr 2017
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2019
Downloads
18,632
Squaring Venture Capital Valuations with Reality
NBER Working Paper No. w23895
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 09 Oct 2017
Last Revised: 17 Oct 2021
Downloads
161
Downloads
18,632
6.
Risk Management for Hedge Funds: Introduction and Overview
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 13 Sep 2001
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
There are 2 versions of this paper
Risk Management for Hedge Funds: Introduction and Overview
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 13 Sep 2001
Downloads
18,298
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18,298
7.
Performance of Private Equity Funds
EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 07 Aug 2005
Last Revised: 28 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business School and HEC Paris - Strategy & Business Policy
Downloads
16,478
8.
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-01
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 09 Jan 2002
Working Paper Series
University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
There are 3 versions of this paper
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-01
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 09 Jan 2002
Downloads
15,816
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing, and Allocations
NBER Working Paper No. w8805
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 21 Feb 2002
Last Revised: 25 Jul 2021
Downloads
257
Downloads
15,816
9.
How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 16-33, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 477/2016
Number of pages: 95
Posted: 29 Jun 2016
Last Revised: 10 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
15,645
10.
Understanding the Securitization of Subprime Mortgage Credit
Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Paper No. 07-43, FRB of New York Staff Report, No. 318
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 14 Dec 2007
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Oliver Wyman
There are 2 versions of this paper
Understanding the Securitization of Subprime Mortgage Credit
Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Paper No. 07-43, FRB of New York Staff Report, No. 318
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 14 Dec 2007
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2008
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14,442
Understanding the Securitization of Subprime Mortgage Credit
Foundations and Trends in Finance, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 191-309, 2006
Number of pages: 119
Posted: 14 Jun 2010
Downloads
15
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14,442
11.
Pseudo-Mathematics and Financial Charlatanism: The Effects of Backtest Overfitting on Out-of-Sample Performance
Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 61(5), May 2014, pp.458-471
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 12 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 05 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Newcastle (Australia)Royal Society of Canada, Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority and Western Michigan University
Downloads
13,517
12.
The Probability of Backtest Overfitting
Journal of Computational Finance (Risk Journals), 2015, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 16 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 05 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Newcastle (Australia)Royal Society of Canada, Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority and Western Michigan University
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Probability of Backtest Overfitting
Journal of Computational Finance (Risk Journals), 2015, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 16 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 05 Jul 2015
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12,453
The Probability of Backtest Overfitting
Journal of Computational Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 21 Sep 2016
Downloads
2
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12,453
13.
Advances in Financial Machine Learning (Chapter 1)
Advances in Financial Machine Learning, Wiley, 1st Edition (2018); ISBN: 978-1-119-48208-6
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 19 Jan 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
Downloads
11,951
14.
Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation
VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE FINANCE OF INNOVATION, 3rd Edition, Andrew Metrick and Ayako Yasuda, eds., John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2021
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 10 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 05 Aug 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Yale School of Management and University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management
Downloads
11,870
15.
Three Quant Lessons from COVID-19 (Presentation Slides)
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 31 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 22 Aug 2021
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Downloads
11,830
16.
High-Frequency Trading
Number of pages: 86
Posted: 06 Jun 2011
Working Paper Series
Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Independent, Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Downloads
11,397
17.
The Cash Flow, Return and Risk Characteristics of Private Equity
NYU, Finance Working Paper No. 03-001
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 18 Mar 2003
Working Paper Series
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)Stockholm School of Economics and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
There are 7 versions of this paper
The Cash Flow, Return and Risk Characteristics of Private Equity
NYU, Finance Working Paper No. 03-001
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 18 Mar 2003
Downloads
11,286
The Cash Flow, Return and Risk Characteristics of Private Equity
NBER Working Paper No. w9454
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 30 Jan 2003
Last Revised: 18 May 2010
Downloads
250
The Cash Flow, Return and Risk Characteristics of Private Equity
NYU Working Paper No. S-FI-03-01
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 11 Nov 2008
Downloads
206
The Cash Flow, Return and Risk Characteristics of Private Equity
NYU Working Paper No. FIN-03-001
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 03 Nov 2008
Downloads
142
The Cash Flow, Return and Risk Characteristics of Private Equity
NYU Working Paper No. S-DRP-03-01
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 07 Nov 2008
Downloads
72
The Cash Flow, Return and Risk Characteristics of Private Equity
NYU Working Paper No. S-CG-03-01
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Downloads
70
The Cash Flow, Return and Risk Characteristics of Private Equity
NYU Working Paper No. SC-AM-03-01
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Downloads
70
Downloads
11,286
18.
Differences and Similarities in Islamic and Conventional Banking
International Journal of Business and Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 2
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 21 Nov 2010
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES or FAST-NU) - FAST School of Business
Downloads
10,483
19.
Can Hedge-Fund Returns Be Replicated?: The Linear Case
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 27 Aug 2006
Working Paper Series
Babson College - Finance Division and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
There are 2 versions of this paper
Can Hedge-Fund Returns Be Replicated?: The Linear Case
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 27 Aug 2006
Downloads
10,349
Can Hedge-Fund Returns Be Replicated?: The Linear Case
Journal of Investment Management, Vol. 5, No. 2, Second Quarter 2007
Posted: 30 May 2007
Downloads
10,349
20.
The 10 Reasons Most Machine Learning Funds Fail
Journalof Portfolio Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 18 Jan 2018
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
Downloads
10,204
21.
The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct
Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 29 Feb 2016
Last Revised: 29 Aug 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance and Stanford University
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct
Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 29 Feb 2016
Last Revised: 29 Aug 2018
Downloads
9,104
The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct
NBER Working Paper No. w22050
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 01 Mar 2016
Last Revised: 07 Oct 2021
Downloads
69
Downloads
9,104
22.
The Risk Profile of Private Equity
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 07 Feb 2004
Working Paper Series
QuantExperts and European Investment Fund
Downloads
8,803
23.
The ICO Gold Rush: It's a Scam, It's a Bubble, It's a Super Challenge for Regulators
University of Luxembourg Law Working Paper No. 11/2017, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 17-83, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2017/035, European Banking Institute Working Paper Series 18/2018, Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 63, No. 2, 2019
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 19 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 18 Aug 2018
Working Paper Series
Universite du Luxembourg - Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of LawUniversity of Hong Kong and Research Assistant @ ADA Chair in Financial Law (inclusive finance)
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8,554
24.
From FinTech to TechFin: The Regulatory Challenges of Data-Driven Finance
New York University Journal of Law and Business, Forthcoming, European Banking Institute Working Paper Series 2017 - No. 6, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2017/007, University of Luxembourg Law Working Paper No. 2017-001
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 29 Apr 2017
Last Revised: 19 Dec 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Universite du Luxembourg - Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of LawUniversity of Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law
Downloads
8,397
25.
Economists' Hubris - The Case of Risk Management
Journal of Financial Transformation, Vol. 28, pp. 25-35, April 2010
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 16 Feb 2010
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Capco Institute and Aston Business School
Downloads
8,392
26.
Advances in Financial Machine Learning: Lecture 1/10 (seminar slides)
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 21 Oct 2018
Last Revised: 29 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
Downloads
8,311
27.
Crowdfunding und Crowdinvesting: State-of-the-Art der wissenschaftlichen Literatur (Crowdfunding and Crowdinvesting: A Review of the Literature)
Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 57-89, 2014
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 06 Jun 2013
Last Revised: 20 Jun 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Trier - Faculty of Management and University of Trier - Faculty of Management
Downloads
7,955
28.
A Closed-Form Solution for Optimal Mean-Reverting Trading Strategies
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 09 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 24 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
Downloads
7,596
29.
The Value of Synergy
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 14 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
7,325
30.
Secret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008
American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83, p. 253, 2009
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 05 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 16 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Downloads
7,108
31.
The Deflated Sharpe Ratio: Correcting for Selection Bias, Backtest Overfitting and Non-Normality
Journal of Portfolio Management, 40 (5), pp. 94-107. 2014 (40th Anniversary Special Issue)
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 21 May 2019
Last Revised: 30 May 2019
Working Paper Series
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
Downloads
7,083
32.
How Do Private Equity Investments Perform Compared to Public Equity?
Darden Business School Working Paper No. 2597259
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 23 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 09 Feb 2021
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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7,059
33.
Capital Structure and Stock Returns
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 25 Jan 2002
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
There are 2 versions of this paper
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6,981
34.
Inside the 'Black Box' of Sell-Side Financial Analysts
Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming, Fox School of Business Research Paper No. 15-042
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 04 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 24 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
Temple University - Department of Accounting, Arizona State University (ASU) - School of Accountancy, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Accounting and Texas A&M University - Department of Accounting
There are 2 versions of this paper
Inside the 'Black Box' of Sell-Side Financial Analysts
Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming, Fox School of Business Research Paper No. 15-042
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 04 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 24 Jan 2015
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6,831
Inside the 'Black Box' of Sell-Side Financial Analysts
Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2015, Fox School of Business Research Paper No. 15-056
Posted: 03 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 16 Dec 2016
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6,831
35.
The 7 Reasons Most Econometric Investments Fail (Presentation Slides)
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 23 Apr 2019
Last Revised: 16 Sep 2019
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
Downloads
6,740
36.
Measuring Loss Potential of Hedge Fund Strategies
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 04 Jan 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority and UBS Wealth Managment Research
Downloads
6,608
37.
Coin-Operated Capitalism
Columbia Law Review, Vol. 119, p. 591, 2019, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-37
Number of pages: 104
Posted: 18 Jul 2018
Last Revised: 31 May 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolPrinceton University - Center for Information Technology Policy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School - Student/Alumni/Adjunct and Georgetown University Law CenterUniversity of Pennsylvania - Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
Downloads
6,551
38.
Detection of False Investment Strategies Using Unsupervised Learning Methods
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 23 Apr 2018
Last Revised: 07 May 2019
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority and New York University (NYU) - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Downloads
5,964
39.
Crypto-Securities Regulation: ICOs, Token Sales and Cryptocurrencies under EU Financial Law
15 European Company and Financial Law Review 645-696 (2018)
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 30 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2019
Accepted Paper Series
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) - European New School of Digital Studies and University of Vienna, Faculty of Law
Downloads
5,833
40.
Advances in Financial Machine Learning: Lecture 3/10 (seminar slides)
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 30 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 29 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
Downloads
5,773
41.
Employee Stock Options (Esops) and Restricted Stock: Valuation Effects and Consequences
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 14 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
5,723
42.
Tactical Investment Algorithms
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 30 Sep 2019
Last Revised: 01 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
Downloads
5,611
43.
The Dark Side of Universal Banking: Financial Conglomerates and the Origins of the Subprime Financial Crisis
Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2009, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 468, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 468
Number of pages: 89
Posted: 13 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University Law School
Downloads
5,538
44.
Building Diversified Portfolios That Outperform Out-of-Sample (Presentation Slides)
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 11 Jan 2016
Last Revised: 14 Aug 2016
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
Downloads
5,471
45.
Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 02 Oct 2006
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
There are 2 versions of this paper
Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 02 Oct 2006
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5,443
Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
NBER Working Paper No. w12592
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 20 Oct 2006
Last Revised: 30 May 2021
Downloads
231
Downloads
5,443
46.
Regulating a Revolution: From Regulatory Sandboxes to Smart Regulation
23 Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law 31-103 (2017), European Banking Institute Working Paper Series 2017 - No. 11, University of Luxembourg Law Working Paper No. 006/2017, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2017/019, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 17-71, Center for Business and Corporate Law (CBC) Working Paper Series 001/2017
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 19 Aug 2017
Last Revised: 13 Jul 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Universite du Luxembourg - Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of LawUniversity of Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law
Downloads
5,406
47.
Security Offerings
HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE FINANCE: EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE, Vol. 1, B. E. Eckbo, ed., Chapter 6, pp. 233-373, Elsevier/North-Holland Handbook of Finance Series, 2007, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2005-28
Number of pages: 168
Posted: 06 Dec 2005
Last Revised: 03 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, University of New South Wales, Sydney and BI Norwegian Business School - Department of Financial Economics
Downloads
5,384
48.
The New Vote Buying: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership
As published in Southern California Law Review, Vol. 79, pp. 811-908, 2006, University of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 53
Number of pages: 99
Posted: 05 Jun 2006
Last Revised: 10 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads
5,300
49.
Fintech and Banking. Friends or Foes?
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 16 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Milan - Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM), European University Institute - Economics Department (ECO), Public University of Navarre and Università degli Studi di Roma Tre
Downloads
5,258
50.
Benchmarking Private Equity: The Direct Alpha Method
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 06 Mar 2014
Last Revised: 14 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, Landmark Partners and Warburg Pincus
Downloads
5,246
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