Alexander Kempf

University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)

Cologne, 50923

Germany

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Scholarly Papers (34)

1.

On the Estimation of the Global Minimum Variance Portfolio

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Apr 2003
Alexander Kempf and Christoph Memmel
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and Deutsche Bundesbank
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Global Minimum Variance Portfolio, Estimation Risk

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Estimating the Global Minimum Variance Portfolio

Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 58, October 2006
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Oct 2006
Christoph Memmel and Alexander Kempf
Deutsche Bundesbank and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
Downloads 1,643 (19,184)
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Estimation Risk, Global Minimum Variance Portfolio, Weight Estimation

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Team Management and Mutual Funds

CFR Working Paper No. 05-10
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Oct 2005
Michaela Baer, Alexander Kempf and Stefan Ruenzi
University of Cologne, Centre for Financial Research (CFR), University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Mannheim - Department of International Finance
Downloads 1,599 (20,019)
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Mutual Funds, Team Management, Performance, Risk-Taking, Investment Style, Fund Flows

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Market Depth and Order Size

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Apr 1997
Olaf Korn and Alexander Kempf
University of Goettingen (Göttingen) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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The Cross-Section of German Stock Returns: New Data and New Evidence

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Aug 2010
University of Cologne - Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne - Department of FinanceUniversity of Cologne - Centre for Financial Research (CFR), University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR), University of Bonn and University of Mannheim - Finance Area
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Asset Pricing, Fama, French, Carhart, Characteristics, Risk Factors, Value, Size, Momentum, Germany

The Cross-Section of German Stock Returns: New Data and New Evidence

Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 64, January 2012, pp. 20-43
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Apr 2012
University of Cologne - Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne - Department of FinanceUniversity of Cologne - Centre for Financial Research (CFR), University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR), University of Bonn - The Bonn Graduate School of Economics and University of Mannheim - Finance Area
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Asset Pricing, Carhart, Fama, French, Germany, Characteristics, Momentum, Risk Factors, Size, Value

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Portfolio Optimization Using Forward-Looking Information

Forthcoming in: Review of Finance
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2014
Alexander Kempf, Olaf Korn and Sven Sassning
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR), University of Goettingen (Göttingen) and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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portfolio selection, option-implied information

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Tournaments in Mutual Fund Families

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Sep 2003
Alexander Kempf and Stefan Ruenzi
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Mannheim - Department of International Finance
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Intra-Firm Competition, Mutual Funds, Risk-Taking, Rank-Order Tournaments, Family Tournament

Tournaments in Mutual-Fund Families

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 1013-1036, 2008
Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Alexander Kempf and Stefan Ruenzi
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Mannheim - Department of International Finance

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G20, G23, J49

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Liquidity and its Impact on Bond Prices

Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 52, January 2000
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 03 Jun 2002
Marliese Uhrig-Homburg and Alexander Kempf
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Institute for Finance and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Resiliency, the Neglected Dimension of Market Liquidity: Empirical Evidence from the New York Stock Exchange

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 05 Mar 2007
Jiwei Dong, Alexander Kempf and Pradeep K. Yadav
Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Oklahoma Price College of Business
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Market Microstructure, Liquidity, Resiliency

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Family Matters: The Performance Flow Relationship in the Mutual Fund Industry

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 May 2004
Alexander Kempf and Stefan Ruenzi
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Mannheim - Department of International Finance
Downloads 992 (40,232)
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Mutual Funds, Fund Families, Performance Flow Relationship

The Investment Value of Fund Managers’ Experience Outside the Financial Sector

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 21 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2017
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Mannheim - Finance Area, University of Cologne and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Investor Learning, Investor Experience, Mutual funds

The Investment Value of Fund Managers’ Experience Outside the Financial Sector

The Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 26 Feb 2018
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Mannheim - Finance Area, University of Cologne and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Investor Learning, Investor Experience, Mutual funds

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Market Timing and Security Market Line Analysis

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 14 Apr 2003
Alexander Kempf and Klaus Kreuzberg
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance
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Performance, Market Timing, Mutual Fund, Security Market Line Analysis, Bias-in-Beta

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The Valuation of Hedge Funds' Equity Positions

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming, AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2016
Gjergji Cici, Alexander Kempf and Alexander Puetz
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance
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Hedge Funds, Return Management, Valuation Deviations

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Short Selling, Unwinding, and Mispricing

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Nov 1997
Alexander Kempf
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Trading System and Market Integration

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Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Feb 1997
Olaf Korn and Alexander Kempf
University of Goettingen (Göttingen) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Trading System and Market Integration

Posted: 21 Sep 1998
Olaf Korn and Alexander Kempf
University of Goettingen (Göttingen) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)

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Employment Risk, Compensation Incentives and Managerial Risk Taking: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Feb 2007
Alexander Kempf, Tanja Thiele and Stefan Ruenzi
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR), University of Cologne - Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Mannheim - Department of International Finance
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Managerial Risk Taking, Employment Risk, Compensation Incentives, Mutual Funds, Restrictions

Speed of Information Diffusion within Fund Families

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2016
Gjergji Cici, Stefan Jaspersen and Alexander Kempf
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Cologne - Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Information diffusion, mutual fund performance, fund families, investment behavior, organizational structures

Speed of Information Diffusion within Fund Families

Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Forthcoming
Posted: 19 Sep 2016
Gjergji Cici, Stefan Jaspersen and Alexander Kempf
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Cologne - Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)

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Information Diffusion, Mutual Fund Performance, Fund Families, Investment Behavior, Organizational Structures

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Is a Team Different from the Sum of its Parts? Evidence from Mutual Fund Managers

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 05 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2011
Michaela Baer, Alexander Kempf and Stefan Ruenzi
University of Cologne, Centre for Financial Research (CFR), University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Mannheim - Department of International Finance
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Mutual Funds, Team Management, Investment Behaviour

Status Quo Bias and the Number of Alternatives: An Empirical Illustration from the Mutual Fund Industry

CFR Working Paper No. 05-07
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Oct 2005
Alexander Kempf and Stefan Ruenzi
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Mannheim - Department of International Finance
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Status Quo Bias, Mutual Funds, Number of Alternatives, Performance Flow Relationship

Status Quo Bias and the Number of Alternatives: An Empirical Illustration from the Mutual Fund Industry

Journal of Behavioral Finance, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 204-213, 2006
Posted: 04 Dec 2006
Alexander Kempf and Stefan Ruenzi
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Mannheim - Department of International Finance

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Status Quo Bias, Mutual Funds, Number of Alternatives, Performance Flow Relationship

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Determinants of Expected Stock Returns: Large Sample Evidence from the German Market

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 06 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2011
University of Cologne - Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne - Department of FinanceUniversity of Cologne - Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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asset pricing, characteristics, risk factors, multifactor models, Germany

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The Impact of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Managerial Actions: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry

AFA 2019 Atlanta Meetings Paper, Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 122, 2021
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 02 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2021
Gjergji Cici, Mario Hendriock and Alexander Kempf
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Cologne - Department of Finance and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
Downloads 383 (134,548)
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labor mobility, non-compete clauses, mutual funds, career concerns

Do Financial Advisors Provide Tangible Benefits for Investors? Evidence from Tax-Motivated Mutual Fund Flows

EFA 2014 Lugano Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2016
Gjergji Cici, Alexander Kempf and Christoph Sorhage
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Mutual funds; Taxable fund distributions; Financial advisors

Do Financial Advisors Provide Tangible Benefits for Investors? Evidence from Tax-Motivated Mutual Fund Flows

Review of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 05 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2016
Gjergji Cici, Alexander Kempf and Christoph Sorhage
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Mutual funds, Taxable fund distributions, Financial advisors

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Low Risk and High Return – Affective Attitudes and Stock Market Expectations

This is the accepted version of the following article: Kempf, A., Merkle, C. and Niessen-Ruenzi, A. (2014), Low Risk and High Return – Affective Attitudes and Stock Market Expectations. European Financial Management, 20: 995–1030, which has been published in final form at doi: 10.1111/eufm.12001.
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 11 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2016
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR), Aarhus University and University of Mannheim, Department of FinanceUniversity of Mannheim - Department of Finance
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Emotions, Risk and Return Expectations, Behavioral Finance, Affect Heuristic

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#MeToo Meets the Mutual Fund Industry: Productivity Effects of Sexual Harassment

Finance Research Letters, Vol. 40, 2021
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 30 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2021
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Cologne - Department of Finance, University of Cologne - Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Sexual Harassment, Mutual Fund Performance, Gender Discrimination, Organizational Frictions, Human Capital

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The Impact of Duality on Managerial Decisions and Performance: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 25 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2013
Alexander Kempf, Alexander Puetz and Florian Sonnenburg
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR), University of Cologne - Department of Finance and University of Cologne - Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
Downloads 328 (159,298)
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Manager duality, governance, managerial decisions, agency conflicts, mutual funds

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Fundamental Information in Technical Trading Strategies

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2014
Ute Bonenkamp, Carsten Homburg and Alexander Kempf
University of Cologne - Department of Accounting, University of Cologne and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
Downloads 317 (165,116)
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Momentum effect, trading strategy, technical trading, fundamental analysis

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Trading Efficiency of Fund Families: Impact on Fund Performance and Investment Behavior

EFA 2015 Vienna Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2016
Gjergji Cici, Laura Dahm and Alexander Kempf
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Mutual funds; fund families; trading efficiency; fund performance; investment behavior

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Forward-Looking Measures of Higher-Order Dependencies with an Application to Portfolio Selection

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 19 May 2016
Felix Brinkmann, Alexander Kempf and Olaf Korn
University of Goettingen (Göttingen), University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Goettingen (Göttingen)
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option-implied information, dependence measures, higher moments, portfolio selection

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Commonalities in Liquidity in Pure Order-Driven Markets

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Mar 2005
Daniel L. Mayston and Alexander Kempf
University of Cologne - Department of Finance and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Market Microstructure, Order-Driven Markets, Liquidity Commonalities

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The Value of Tradeability

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 11-37
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Sep 2011
Marc Chesney and Alexander Kempf
University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
Downloads 132 (368,554)
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Tradeability, Liquidity, Option Pricing

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Knowledge Spillovers in the Mutual Fund Industry Through Labor Mobility

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2019
Gjergji Cici, Alexander Kempf and Claudia Peitzmeier
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Cologne - Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Organization Capital, Knowledge Spillovers, Mutual Funds, Learning-by-Hiring

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Finding your calling: Matching skills with jobs in the mutual fund industry

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 21 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Gjergji Cici, Mario Hendriock and Alexander Kempf
University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Cologne - Department of Finance and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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human capital, mutual funds, occupational match finding

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SRI Funds: Nomen Est Omen

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Mar 2008
Alexander Kempf and Peer C. Osthoff
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR) and University of Cologne - Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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Socially Responsible Mutual Funds, Socially Responsible Investing, Ethical Investment

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The Value of the Early Unwind Option in Futures Contracts with an Endogenous Basis

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Posted: 05 Jul 1998
Wolfgang Bühler, Wolfgang Bühler and Alexander Kempf
University of New South Wales, Australian Business SchoolUniversity of Mannheim - Department of Business Administration and Finance and University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)

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