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Risk Management for Hedge Funds: Introduction and Overview

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Risk Management for Hedge Funds: Introduction and Overview

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Sep 2001
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Risk management, hedge funds, risk transparency, risk budgeting, fund of funds

Risk Management for Hedge Funds: Introduction and Overview

Posted: 31 Jul 2001
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering

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Risk management, hedge funds, risk transparency, risk budgeting, fund of funds

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Reconciling Efficient Markets with Behavioral Finance: The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis

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Reconciling Efficient Markets with Behavioral Finance: The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis

Journal of Investment Consulting, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 May 2005
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Efficient markets, behavioral finance, adaptive markets

Reconciling Efficient Markets with Behavioral Finance: The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis

Journal of Investment Consulting, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 21-44, 2005
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Nov 2010
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Behavioral Finance, Market Efficiency, Efficient Markets Hypothesis, Adaptive Markets Hypothesis

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What Happened to the Quants in August 2007?

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Citation 57

What Happened to the Quants in August 2007?

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 21 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2008
Amir Khandani and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Hedge Funds, Long/Short Equity, Liquidity, Statistical Arbitrage, August 2007

What Happened to the Quants in August 2007?

Journal of Investment Management, Vol. 5, No. 4, Fourth Quarter 2007
Posted: 17 Jan 2008
Amir Khandani and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering

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Hedge Funds, quantitative market-neutral, long/short equities, August 2007

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Efficient Markets Hypothesis

THE NEW PALGRAVE: A DICTIONARY OF ECONOMICS, L. Blume, S. Durlauf, eds., 2nd Edition, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2007
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Jun 2007
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Market Efficiency, Behavioral Finance

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Hedge Funds, Systemic Risk, and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008: Written Testimony for the House Oversight Committee Hearing on Hedge Funds

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Nov 2008
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Can Hedge-Fund Returns Be Replicated?: The Linear Case

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Can Hedge-Fund Returns Be Replicated?: The Linear Case

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Aug 2006
Jasmina Hasanhodzic and Andrew W. Lo
Babson College - Finance Division and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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hedge funds, investments, portfolio management, risk management

Can Hedge-Fund Returns Be Replicated?: The Linear Case

Journal of Investment Management, Vol. 5, No. 2, Second Quarter 2007
Posted: 30 May 2007
Jasmina Hasanhodzic and Andrew W. Lo
Babson College - Finance Division and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering

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Hedge fund, portfolio management, risk management

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The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis: Market Efficiency from an Evolutionary Perspective

Journal of Portfolio Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Oct 2004
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Market Efficiency, Behavioral Finance, Bounded Rationality

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Where Do Alphas Come From?: A New Measure of the Value of Active Investment Management

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Where Do Alphas Come From?: A New Measure of the Value of Active Investment Management

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Alpha, Beta, Performance Attribution, Active Management, Hedge Funds

Where Do Alphas Come From?: A New Measure of the Value of Active Investment Management

Posted: 06 May 2008
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering

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Alpha, Beta, Performance Attribution, Active Management, Hedge Funds

Where Do Alphas Come from?: A New Measure of the Value of Active Investment Management

Journal Of Investment Management (JOIM), Third Quarter 2008
Posted: 07 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2010
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering

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Performance attrribution, performance measurement, alpha, beta, active/passive, timing, forecasting

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Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2012
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Financial Crisis, Systemic Risk, Book Review

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Econometric Measures of Connectedness and Systemic Risk in the Finance and Insurance Sectors

University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series No. 21, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4774-10, AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper, CAREFIN Research Paper No. 12/2010
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 23 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2021
Monica Billio, Monica Billio, Andrew W. Lo, Mila Getmansky Sherman and Loriana Pelizzon
University of Venice - Department of EconomicsCa Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance and Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
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Systemic Risk, Financial Institutions, Liquidity, Financial Crises

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Systemic Risk and Hedge Funds

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Systemic Risk and Hedge Funds

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4535-05, EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings Paper, AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 07 Mar 2005
Nicholas T. Chan, Mila Getmansky Sherman, Shane M. Haas and Andrew W. Lo
AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance, AlphaSimplex Group, LLC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Hedge funds, systemic risk, financial crises, risk management

Systemic Risk and Hedge Funds

NBER Working Paper No. w11200
Number of pages: 109 Posted: 19 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2022
Nicholas T. Chan, Mila Getmansky Sherman, Shane M. Haas and Andrew W. Lo
AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance, AlphaSimplex Group, LLC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Warning: Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth!

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Warning: Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth!

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 05 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2010
Andrew W. Lo and Mark T. Mueller
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Theoretical Physics
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Quantitative Finance, Efficient Markets, Financial Crisis, History of Economic Thought

Warning: Physics Envy May Be Hazardous to Your Wealth!

Journal of Investment Management (JOIM), Second Quarter 2010
Posted: 13 Jul 2010
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering

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Quantitative finance, Efficient markets, Financial crisis, History of economic thought

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A Survey of Systemic Risk Analytics

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A Survey of Systemic Risk Analytics

U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Financial Research No. 0001
Number of pages: 165 Posted: 11 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2016
Dimitrios Bisias, Mark D. Flood, Andrew W. Lo and Stavros Valavanis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), R. H. Smith School of Business, U. of Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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systemic risk, financial institutions, liquidity, financial crises, risk management

A Survey of Systemic Risk Analytics

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 4, pp. 255-296, 2012
Posted: 04 Nov 2012
Dimitrios Bisias, Mark D. Flood, Andrew W. Lo and Stavros Valavanis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), R. H. Smith School of Business, U. of Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Financial Econometrics

International Library of Financial Econometrics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Jun 2007
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Financial Econometrics, Asset Pricing, Portfolio Theory, Market Microstructure, Empirical Finance

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What Happened to the Quants in August 2007?: Evidence from Factors and Transactions Data

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Citation 73

What Happened to the Quants in August 2007?: Evidence from Factors and Transactions Data

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 25 Oct 2008
Amir Khandani and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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hedge funds, systemic risk, market efficiency, statistical arbitrage, long/short equity

What Happened to the Quants in August 2007?: Evidence from Factors and Transactions Data

NBER Working Paper No. w14465
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2022
Amir Khandani and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Hedge Funds: A Dynamic Industry in Transition

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Hedge Funds: A Dynamic Industry in Transition

Number of pages: 135 Posted: 29 Jul 2015
Mila Getmansky Sherman, Peter A. Lee and Andrew W. Lo
University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance, AlphaSimplex Group, LLC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Hedge Funds, Alternative Investments, Investment Management, Long/Short, Illiquidity, Financial Crisis

Hedge Funds: A Dynamic Industry in Transition

NBER Working Paper No. w21449
Number of pages: 136 Posted: 18 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2023
Mila Getmansky Sherman, Peter A. Lee and Andrew W. Lo
University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance, AlphaSimplex Group, LLC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Hedge Funds: A Dynamic Industry in Transition

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 7, pp. 483-577, 2015
Posted: 11 Dec 2015
Mila Getmansky Sherman, Peter A. Lee and Andrew W. Lo
University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance, AlphaSimplex Group, LLC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering

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Adaptive Markets and the New World Order

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2012
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Efficient Markets, Behavioral Finance, Asset Allocation, Investments

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An Econometric Model of Serial Correlation and Illiquidity in Hedge Fund Returns

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An Econometric Model of Serial Correlation and Illiquidity in Hedge Fund Returns

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 07 Mar 2003
Mila Getmansky Sherman, Andrew W. Lo and Igor Makarov
University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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Hedge Funds, Serial Correlation, Market Efficiency, Performance Smoothing, Liquidity

An Econometric Model of Serial Correlation and Illiquidity in Hedge Fund Returns

NBER Working Paper No. w9571
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 20 Mar 2003 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2022
Mila Getmansky Sherman, Andrew W. Lo and Igor Makarov
University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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Quantifying the Impact of Impact Investing

Management Science
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 18 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2023
Andrew W. Lo and Ruixun Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Peking University - School of Mathematical Sciences
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Impact Investing, ESG Investing, Socially Responsible Investing, Venture Philanthropy, Investments

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Regulatory Reform in the Wake of the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 May 2009
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?: A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design

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Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?: A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 11 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2017
Leah Isakov, Andrew W. Lo and Vahid Montazerhodjat
Pfizer, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Clinical Trial Design; Drug-Approval Process; FDA; Bayesian Decision Analysis; Adaptive Design

Is the Fda Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?: A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design

NBER Working Paper No. w21499
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 31 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2023
Vahid Montazerhodjat and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Fear, Greed, and Financial Crises: A Cognitive Neurosciences Perspective

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 14 Oct 2011
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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financial crisis, neuroeconomics, animal spirits, behavioral finance

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Fear and Greed in Financial Markets: A Clinical Study of Day-Traders

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Fear and Greed in Financial Markets: A Clinical Study of Day-Traders

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 Apr 2005
Andrew W. Lo, Dmitry V. Repin and Brett N. Steenbarger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Improbability Foundation and SUNY Upstate Medical University - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Behaviorial Finance, Market Psychology, Market Efficiency

Fear and Greed in Financial Markets: A Clinical Study of Day-Traders

NBER Working Paper No. w11243
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 May 2005 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2022
Andrew W. Lo, Dmitry V. Repin and Brett N. Steenbarger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Improbability Foundation and SUNY Upstate Medical University - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Stock Market Trading Volume

THE HANDBOOK OF FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS, Y. A¨ıt-Sahalia and L. Hansen, eds., New York: North-Holland, 2009
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 16 May 2009
Andrew W. Lo and Jiang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Trading Volume, Asset Pricing, Portfolio Theory, Mean-Variance Optimization

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Foundations of Technical Analysis: Computational Algorithms, Statistical Inference, and Empirical Implementation

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Foundations of Technical Analysis: Computational Algorithms, Statistical Inference, and Empirical Implementation

NBER Working Paper No. w7613
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 16 May 2000 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Andrew W. Lo, Harry Mamaysky and Jiang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Foundations of Technical Analysis: Computational Algorithms, Statistical Inference, and Empirical Implementation

Journal of Finance
Posted: 14 May 2000
Andrew W. Lo, Harry Mamaysky and Jiang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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What is an Index?

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Oct 2015
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Index Funds, Indexation, Passive Investing, Smart Beta, Liquid Alternatives, Risk Management

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Asset Prices and Trading Volume Under Fixed Transactions Costs

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Asset Prices and Trading Volume Under Fixed Transactions Costs

EFA 2001 Barcelona Meetings; Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-35
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 07 Jun 2001
Andrew W. Lo, Harry Mamaysky and Jiang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Asset Pricing, Liquidity, Trading Volume, Transaction Costs

Asset Prices and Trading Volume Under Fixed Transactions Costs

NBER Working Paper No. w8311
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 03 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2022
Andrew W. Lo, Harry Mamaysky and Jiang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Asset Prices and Trading Volume Under Fixed Transactions Costs

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 112, pp. 1054-1090, October 2004
Posted: 03 Sep 2004
Andrew W. Lo, Harry Mamaysky and Jiang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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An Empirical Evaluation of Tax-Loss Harvesting Alpha

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2020
Shomesh Chaudhuri, Terence Burnham and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Tax-Loss Harvesting; Tax Optimization; Tax Alpha; Tax-Aware Investing

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Quantifying the Returns of ESG Investing: An Empirical Analysis with Six ESG Metrics

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6930-23
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2023
Florian Berg, Andrew W. Lo, Roberto Rigobon, Manish Singh and Ruixun Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Peking University - School of Mathematical Sciences
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Environmental; Social and Governance; ESG; Impact Investing; Treynor-Black Portfolio; Voting Aggregation

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When is Time Continuous?

MIT Laboratory of Financial Engineering (LFE) Working Paper No. LFE-1033-98
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 02 Sep 1998
Dimitris Bertsimas, Leonid Kogan and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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The Origin of Behavior

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 15 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2010
Thomas J. Brennan and Andrew W. Lo
Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Behavioral Finance, Probability Matching, Loss Aversion, Risk Aversion, Risk Preferences, Evolution

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A Complete Theory of Human Behavior

American Economic Association, Ten Years and Beyond: Economists Answer NSF's Call for Long-Term Research Agendas
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 12 Aug 2011
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Moore's Law vs. Murphy's Law: Algorithmic Trading and Its Discontents

Journal of Economic Perspectives (2013)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Andrei A. Kirilenko and Andrew W. Lo
University of Cambridge - Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Algorithmic Trading, High Frequency Trading, Financial Regulation, Systemic Risk

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Agent-Based Models of Financial Markets: A Comparison with Experimental Markets

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 19 Nov 2001
Tomaso Poggio, Andrew W. Lo, Blake LeBaron and Nicholas T. Chan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Brandeis University - International Business School and AlphaSimplex Group, LLC
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Agent-Based Models, Artificial Markets, Experimental Markets, Market Microstructure

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The Risk, Reward, and Asset Allocation of Nonprofit Endowment Funds

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6163-20
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 07 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2021
Andrew W. Lo, Egor Matveyev and Stefan Zeume
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Endowment Funds, Long-term Asset Management, Governance of Nonprofit Organizations

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Can Hedge Funds Time Market Liquidity?

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, AFA 2013 San Diego Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 22 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2023
Charles Cao, Yong Chen, Bing Liang and Andrew W. Lo
Pennsylvania State University, Texas A&M University - Department of Finance, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Hedge funds, liquidity timing, investment value, liquidity reaction, performance persistence

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Impossible Frontiers

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Impossible Frontiers

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2016
Thomas J. Brennan and Andrew W. Lo
Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Shortselling, Long/Short, Portfolio Optimization, Mean-Variance Analysis, CAPM, 130/30

Impossible Frontiers

NBER Working Paper No. w14525
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2022
Thomas J. Brennan and Andrew W. Lo
Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Non-Parametric Risk Management and Implied Risk Aversion

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 Jun 1998
Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Andrew W. Lo
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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New Financing Methods in the Biopharma Industry: A Case Study of Royalty Pharma, Inc.

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 24 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2021
Andrew W. Lo and Sourya Naraharisetti
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Duke University
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Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Translational Medicine, Drug Royalty Investment Company, Intellectual Property, Royalties, Corporate Finance

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The Gordon Gekko Effect: The Role of Culture in the Financial Industry

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The Gordon Gekko Effect: The Role of Culture in the Financial Industry

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 08 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2021
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Culture, Corporate Governance, Regulation, Behavioral Finance, Risk Management

The Gordon Gekko Effect: The Role of Culture in the Financial Industry

Economic Policy Review, Issue Aug, pp. 17-42, 2016
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2017
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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culture, corporate governance, regulation, behavioral finance, risk management

The Gordon Gekko Effect: The Role of Culture in the Financial Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w21267
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2023
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect

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Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4750-09, Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 1472892
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 15 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2018
Amir Khandani, Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Systemic Risk, Financial Crisis, Household Finance, Real Estate, Subprime

Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect

NBER Working Paper No. w15362
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2023
Amir Khandani, Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Machine Learning with Statistical Imputation for Predicting Drug Approvals

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 25 May 2017 Last Revised: 21 May 2019
Andrew W. Lo, Kien Wei Siah and Chi Heem Wong
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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biotech; pharmaceuticals; risk management; machine learning

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Consumer Credit Risk Models Via Machine-Learning Algorithms

AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2010
Amir Khandani, Adlar J. Kim and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Household Behavior, Consumer Credit Risk, Risk Management, Credit Card Borrowing, Machine Learning, Nonparametric Estimation

44.

Spectral Factor Models

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Research Paper No. 18-17
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2020
Federico M. Bandi, Shomesh Chaudhuri, Andrew W. Lo and Andrea Tamoni
Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick
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systematic risk, factor models, investment horizon, cross-sectional pricing

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Dynamic Alpha: A Spectral Decomposition of Investment Performance Across Time Horizons

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2018
Shomesh Chaudhuri and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Investments; Performance Attribution; Portfolio Management; Alpha; Spectral Analysis

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Illiquidity Premia in Asset Returns: An Empirical Analysis of Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, and U.S. Equity Portfolios

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Illiquidity Premia in Asset Returns: An Empirical Analysis of Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, and U.S. Equity Portfolios

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 29 Jun 2009
Amir Khandani and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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liquidity, illiquidity, hedge funds, mutual funds, equity premium, market microstructure

Illiquidity Premia in Asset Returns: An Empirical Analysis of Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, and U.S. Equity Portfolios

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 29 Jun 2009
Amir Khandani and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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liquidity, illiquidity, hedge funds, mutual funds, equity premium, market microstructure

47.

Trading Volume: Implications of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model

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Trading Volume: Implications of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4217-01
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 06 Nov 2001
Andrew W. Lo and Jiang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Trading Volume, Asset Pricing, Market Microstructure, Market Efficiency

Trading Volume: Implications of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model

NBER Working Paper No. w8565
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 25 Oct 2001 Last Revised: 29 May 2022
Andrew W. Lo and Jiang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Macro-Finance Models with Nonlinear Dynamics

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Macro-Finance Models with Nonlinear Dynamics

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 15, pp. 407-432, 2023
Posted: 07 Nov 2023
Winston Wei Dou, Andrew W. Lo, Harald Uhlig and Xiang Fang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and The University of Hong Kong

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Macro-Finance Models with Nonlinear Dynamics

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Forthcoming, The Rodney L. White Center Working Papers Series at the Wharton School, University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Winston Wei Dou, Xiang Fang, Andrew W. Lo and Harald Uhlig
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, The University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) Models; Systemic Risk; Endogenous Jump Risk; Financial Constraints; Liquidity

49.

The Psychophysiology of Real-Time Financial Risk Processing

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The Psychophysiology of Real-Time Financial Risk Processing

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Sep 2001
Andrew W. Lo and Dmitry V. Repin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Improbability Foundation
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Behavioral Finance, Market Efficiency, Market Rationality, Psychology, Psychophysiology

The Psychophysiology of Real-Time Financial Risk Processing

NBER Working Paper No. w8508
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2022
Andrew W. Lo and Dmitry V. Repin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Improbability Foundation
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World of EdCraft: Challenges and Opportunities in Synchronous Online Teaching

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 26 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2022
Andrew W. Lo, Brian Stevens and Sean P. Willems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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online teaching, distance learning, live streaming, MOOC, gamification

51.

Macroeconomic Models for Monetary Policy: A Critical Review from a Finance Perspective

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Macroeconomic Models for Monetary Policy: A Critical Review from a Finance Perspective

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 12, pp. 95-140, 2020
Posted: 10 Dec 2020
Winston Wei Dou, Andrew W. Lo, Ameya Muley and Harald Uhlig
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Chicago - Department of Economics

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Macroeconomic Models for Monetary Policy: A Critical Review from a Finance Perspective

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 17 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2020
Winston Wei Dou, Andrew W. Lo, Ameya Muley and Harald Uhlig
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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Macrofinancial Models; Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models; Macroprudential Policy; Systemic Risk; Monetary Policy Analysis

52.

Sifting Through the Wreckage: Lessons from Recent Hedge-Fund Liquidations

Journal of Investment Management, 4th Quarter, 2004
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Nov 2004
Andrew W. Lo, Mila Getmansky Sherman and Shauna X. Mei
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Hedge funds, risk management, liquidity

53.

The Feasibility of Systemic Risk Measurement: Written Testimony for the House Financial Services Committee Hearing on Systemic Risk Regulation

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 01 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2009
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Systemic Risk, Financial Crises, Regulation

54.

Stop-Loss Strategies with Serial Correlation, Regime Switching, and Transactions Costs

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 27 Nov 2015
Andrew W. Lo and Alexander Remorov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Stop-Loss Strategy, Portfolio Insurance, Risk Management, Investments, Portfolio Management, Asset Allocation, Performance Attribution, Behavioral Finance

55.

Law is Code: A Software Engineering Approach to Analyzing the United States Code

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 21 Oct 2014
William Li, Pablo Azar, David Larochelle, Phil Hill, Phil Hill and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Students, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law SchoolHarvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Explainable Machine Learning Models of Consumer Credit Risk

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2022
Randall Davis, Andrew W. Lo, Sudhanshu Mishra, Arash Nourian, Manish Singh, Nicholas Wu and Ruixun Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Peking University - School of Mathematical Sciences
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Machine Learning; Interpretability; Explainable AI; Credit Lending; Inductive Logic Programming; Optimal Trees; LIME; SHAP; Counterfactual.

57.

Modeling and Measuring Systemic Risk

American Economic Association, Ten Years and Beyond: Economists Answer NSF's Call for Long-Term Research Agendas
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 12 Aug 2011
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Lars Peter Hansen, Anil K. Kashyap, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Andrew W. Lo
Princeton University - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Hedge Fund Holdings and Stock Market Efficiency

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Hedge Fund Holdings and Stock Market Efficiency

FEDS Working Paper No. 2014-36
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 25 May 2014
Charles Cao, Bing Liang, Andrew W. Lo and Lubomir Petrasek
Pennsylvania State University, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Hedge funds, institutional investors, market efficiency

Hedge Fund Holdings and Stock Market Efficiency

Review of Asset Pricing Studies (RAPS), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 14 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2017
Charles Cao, Bing Liang, Andrew W. Lo and Lubomir Petrasek
Pennsylvania State University, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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hedge funds, institutional investors, equity holdings, market efficiency, liquidity crises

59.

Spectral Portfolio Theory

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 03 Jun 2016
Shomesh Chaudhuri and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Portfolio Theory, Portfolio Optimization, Spectral Analysis, Cycles, Active/Passive Decomposition

60.

Stock Market Prices Do Not Follow Random Walks: Evidence from a Simple Specification Test

NBER Working Paper No. w2168
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 25 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2022
Andrew W. Lo and A. Craig Mackinlay
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Finance Department
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Funding Long Shots

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3058472
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2019
John C. Hull, Andrew W. Lo and Roger Stein
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Sloan School of Management, MIT
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Capital Budgeting; Impact Investing; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Megafund; Securitization; Portfolio Theory; Research-Backed Obligation

62.

Measuring Risk Preferences and Asset-Allocation Decisions: A Global Survey Analysis

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 06 Nov 2019
Andrew W. Lo, Alexander Remorov and Zied Ben Chaouch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Asset Allocation, Risk Aversion, Behavioral Finance, Retail Investors, Institutional Investors, Financial Advisors

63.

Is it Real, or is it Randomized?: A Financial Turing Test

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2015
Jasmina Hasanhodzic, Andrew W. Lo and Emanuele Viola
Babson College - Finance Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Northeastern University
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Market Efficiency, Human Pattern Recognition, Machine/Human Interfaces, Technical Analysis, Video Games

64.

Moore's Law vs. Murphy's Law in the Financial System: Who's Winning?

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Moore's Law vs. Murphy's Law in the Financial System: Who's Winning?

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Jan 2016
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Financial Technology, Systemic Risk, Macroprudential Policy, Risk Management

Moore's Law vs. Murphy's Law in the Financial System: Who's Winning?

BIS Working Paper No. 564
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Jun 2016
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Financial technology, systemic risk, macroprudential policy, risk management

65.

Black's Leverage Effect is not Due to Leverage

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Feb 2011
Jasmina Hasanhodzic and Andrew W. Lo
Babson College - Finance Division and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Citation 39

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Volatility, Leverage Effect, Return/Volatility Relationship, Time-Varying Expected Return, Behavioral Finance

66.

The National Transportation Safety Board: A Model for Systemic Risk Management

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The National Transportation Safety Board: A Model for Systemic Risk Management

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 24 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2010
Eric Fielding, Andrew W. Lo and Jian Helen Yang
National Transportation Safety Board, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and MIT Sloan School of Management
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Systemic Risk, Risk Management, Financial Regulation, Office of Financial Research, NTSB

The National Transportation Safety Board: A Model for Systemic Risk Management

Journal of Investment Management (JOIM), First Quarter 2011
Posted: 09 Apr 2011
Eric Fielding, Andrew W. Lo and Jian Helen Yang
National Transportation Safety Board, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and MIT Sloan School of Management

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risk management, systemic risk, forensic finance, NTSB

67.

Estimating Clinical Trial Success Rates and Related Parameters in Oncology

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 09 May 2019
Chi Heem Wong, Kien Wei Siah and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Probabilities of Success; Clinical Trials; Biostatistics; Oncology; Healthcare Finance

68.

Financing Correlated Drug Development Projects

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Financing Correlated Drug Development Projects

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 21 Nov 2020
Andrew W. Lo and Kien Wei Siah
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Securitization, Capital Structure, Biotech, Drug Development, Healthcare Finance

Financing Correlated Drug Development Projects

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Nov 2020
Andrew W. Lo and Kien Wei Siah
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Securitization; Biotechnology; Research Backed Obligation; Biomedical Mega-Fund; Portfolio Theory; Monte Carlo Simulation

69.

The Growth of Relative Wealth and the Kelly Criterion

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2021
Andrew W. Lo, Allen Orr and Ruixun Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, University of Rochester - Department of Biology and Peking University - School of Mathematical Sciences
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Kelly Criterion, Portfolio Optimization, Adaptive Markets Hypothesis, Evolutionary Game Theory

70.

Competition and R&D Financing: Evidence from the Biopharmaceutical Industry

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Competition and R&D Financing: Evidence from the Biopharmaceutical Industry

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5140-15
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2018
Richard T. Thakor and Andrew W. Lo
University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Healthcare Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Capital Structure; R&D Investments; Competition; Innovation

Competition and R&D Financing Decisions: Theory and Evidence from the Biopharmaceutical Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w20903
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 02 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2023
Richard T. Thakor and Andrew W. Lo
University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Venture Philanthropy: A Case Study of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 May 2019
Esther Kim and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Venture Philanthropy; Venture Capital; Impact Investing; Cystic Fibrosis

72.

When are Contrarian Profits Due to Stock Market Overreaction?

NBER Working Paper No. w2977
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2022
Andrew W. Lo and A. Craig Mackinlay
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Finance Department
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Global Realignment in Financial Market Dynamics

SAFE Working Paper No. 304
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 04 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Monica Billio, Monica Billio, Andrew W. Lo, Loriana Pelizzon, Mila Getmansky Sherman and Abalfazl Zareei
University of Venice - Department of EconomicsCa Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance and Stockholm University
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Network theory; Centrality; High Frequency Data; ETFs; Financial Crises; Covid-19; International Finance

74.

Sharing R&D Risk in Healthcare via FDA Hedges

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Sharing R&D Risk in Healthcare via FDA Hedges

The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, forthcoming, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5194-17
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 03 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2021
Adam Jørring, Andrew W. Lo, Tomas Philipson, Manita Singh and Richard T. Thakor
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, University of Chicago, Goldman Sachs and University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management
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Healthcare Finance, R&D Investments, Drug Development, FDA Approval, Idiosyncratic Risk, Risk sharing, Hedging

Sharing R&D Risk in Healthcare Via Fda Hedges

NBER Working Paper No. w23344
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 May 2017 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2023
Adam Jørring, Andrew W. Lo, Tomas Philipson, Manita Singh and Richard T. Thakor
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, University of Chicago, Goldman Sachs and University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management
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What Post-Crisis Changes Does the Economics Discipline Need?: Beware of Theory Envy!

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Jan 2012
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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physics envy, theory envy, financial crisis

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Competition and R&D Financing: Evidence from the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 29 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 05 May 2021
Richard T. Thakor and Andrew W. Lo
University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Healthcare Finance, Pharmaceutical Industry, Biotechnology Industry, Capital Structure, R&D Investments, Cash Holdings, Competition, Innovation

77.

Risk and Risk Management in the Credit Card Industry

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Risk and Risk Management in the Credit Card Industry

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 16 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2022
Florentin Butaru, Qingqing Chen, Brian J. Clark, Sanmay Das, Andrew W. Lo and Akhtar R. Siddique
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Washington University in St. Louis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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credit risk, consumer finance, credit cards, risk management, machine learning, big data

Risk and Risk Management in the Credit Card Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w21305
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 29 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2022
Florentin Butaru, Qingqing Chen, Brian J. Clark, Sanmay Das, Andrew W. Lo and Akhtar R. Siddique
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Washington University in St. Louis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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78.

Securities Trading of Concepts (STOC)

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 23 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2010
Ely Dahan, Adlar J. Kim, Andrew W. Lo, Tomaso Poggio and Nicholas T. Chan
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Urology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and AlphaSimplex Group, LLC
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prediction markets, experimental markets, new product development, consumer preferences

79.

The Size and Power of the Variance Ratio Test in Finite Samples: a Monte Carlo Investigation

NBER Working Paper No. t0066
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2023
Andrew W. Lo and A. Craig Mackinlay
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Finance Department
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Financing Fusion Energy

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6657-21
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 23 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 17 May 2023
Abdullah Alhamdan, Zachery Halem, Irene Hernandez, Andrew W. Lo, Manish Singh and Dennis Whyte
MIT School of Management, Lazard, Gataca, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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fusion investments, green investments, fusion megafund, fusion portfolio, de-risking strategy, decarbonization, financial engineering

81.

Optimal Financing for R&D-Intensive Firms

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Optimal Financing for R&D-Intensive Firms

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5240-17
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 11 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2023
Richard T. Thakor and Andrew W. Lo
University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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R&D Investments, Innovation, Capital Structure, Cash Holdings, Mechanism Design

Optimal Financing for R&D-Intensive Firms

NBER Working Paper No. w23831
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 18 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2023
Richard T. Thakor and Andrew W. Lo
University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Long-Term Memory in Stock Market Prices

NBER Working Paper No. w2984
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2022
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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83.

A Portfolio Approach to Accelerate Therapeutic Innovation in Ovarian Cancer

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 11 Dec 2018
Shomesh Chaudhuri, Katherine Cheng, Andrew W. Lo, Shirley Pepke, Sergio Rinaudo, Lynda` Roman and Ryan Spencer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Lyrid LLC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Southern California - Division of Gynecologic Oncology and University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Medicine and Public Health
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biotech; venture capital; healthcare finance; investments

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Social Contagion and the Survival of Diverse Investment Styles

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 23 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2023
David A. Hirshleifer, Andrew W. Lo and Ruixun Zhang
Marshall School of Business, USC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Peking University - School of Mathematical Sciences
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Contagion, Investment Styles, Investor Behavior, Investor Psychology, Adaptive Markets

85.

SBE 2020: A Complete Theory of Human Behavior

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 03 Oct 2010
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Efficient Markets, Rational Expectations, Behavioral Finance, Consilience

86.

Risk and Reward in the Orphan Drug Industry

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5582-18
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Oct 2018
Andrew W. Lo and Richard T. Thakor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management
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Risk, Return, Index, Biopharmaceutical Industry, Orphan Drugs, Drug Development

87.

Business Models to Cure Rare Disease: A Case Study of Solid Biosciences

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 06 Nov 2016
Esther Kim and Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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biotech investments, venture capital, portfolio management

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Maximizing Predictability in the Stock and Bond Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w5027
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 25 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2022
Andrew W. Lo and A. Craig Mackinlay
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Finance Department
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Pricing for Survival in the Biopharma Industry: A Case Study of Acthar Gel and Questcor Pharmaceuticals

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Sep 2017
Terence Burnham, Samuel Huang and Andrew W. Lo
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Lab for Financial Engineering, Students and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Biotech; Pharmaceuticals; Drug Pricing; Acthar; Questcor; Rare Diseases

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Econometric Models of Limit-Order Executions

NBER Working Paper No. w6257
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 24 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2022
Andrew W. Lo, A. Craig Mackinlay and June Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Finance Department and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Optimal Impact Portfolios with General Dependence and Marginals

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 09 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2023
Andrew W. Lo, Lan Wu, Ruixun Zhang and Chaoyi Zhao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Peking University, Peking University - School of Mathematical Sciences and Peking University
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Impact Investing; Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG); Induced Order Statistics; Copula; Representation Theorem; Portfolio Theory

92.

Funding Translational Medicine via Public Markets: The Business Development Company

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Aug 2015
Sandra Forman, Andrew W. Lo, Monica J. Shilling, Grace Sweeney and Grace Sweeney
Proskauer Rose LLP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Proskauer Rose LLP and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - MIT Media LaboratoryMagyar & Bogle
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Business Development Company, Megafund, Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Translational Medicine, Drug Royalty Investment Company, Intellectual Property, Royalties, Corporate Finance

93.

Financing Vaccines for Global Health Security

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Financing Vaccines for Global Health Security

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 May 2020 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2021
Jonathan Vu, Benjamin Kaplan, Shomesh Chaudhuri, Monique K Mansoura and Andrew W. Lo
Warren Alpert Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The MITRE Corporation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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vaccines fund, emerging infectious diseases, healthcare finance

Financing Vaccines for Global Health Security

NBER Working Paper No. w27212
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 May 2020 Last Revised: 10 May 2023
Jonathan Vu, Benjamin Kaplan, Shomesh Chaudhuri, Monique K Mansoura and Andrew W. Lo
Warren Alpert Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The MITRE Corporation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Trading Volume: Definitions, Data Analysis, and Implications of Portfolio Theory

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Trading Volume: Definitions, Data Analysis, and Implications of Portfolio Theory

NBER Working Paper No. w7625
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 21 May 2000 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2022
Andrew W. Lo and Jiang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Trading Volume: Definitions, Data Analysis, and Implications of Portfolio Theory

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 13, Iss. 2
Posted: 08 Dec 1999
Andrew W. Lo and Jiang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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The Wisdom of Crowds vs. the Madness of Mobs: An Evolutionary Model of Bias, Polarization, and Other Challenges to Collective Intelligence

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2022
Andrew W. Lo and Ruixun Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Peking University - School of Mathematical Sciences
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Collective intelligence, Political polarization, Bias, Discrimination, Evolutionarily stable strategy, Group selection