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Francesco Nicolai

BI Norwegian Business School

Nydalsveien 37

Oslo, 0442

Norway

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (5)

1.

First Impressions and the Origins of Disagreement: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2026
Francesco Nicolai and Simona Risteska
BI Norwegian Business School and Warwick Business School
Downloads 521 (134,337)

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mutual funds, asset pricing, bias, learning, expected returns, behavioural finance, revealed expectations, first impressions, disagreement, primacy, recency, mutual fund managers, trading volume, volatility

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Living on the Edge: the Salience of Property Taxes in the UK Housing Market

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 31 May 2019
Francesco Nicolai, Marco Pelosi and Simona Risteska
BI Norwegian Business School, London School of Economics and Warwick Business School
Downloads 263 (290,667)

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Housing Market, Property Tax, Consumer Economics, Public Finance, Behavioral Finance

3.

How Big Can Mechanical Rebalancing Get?

Number of pages: 97 Posted: 17 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2026
Francesco Nicolai and Simona Risteska
BI Norwegian Business School and Warwick Business School
Downloads 202 (431,126)

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price manipulation, dynamic arbitrage, market impact, initial margin, collateral, haircuts, VaR, constraints, risk-control, volatility-managed, forced liquidation, procyclicality, volatility targeting, low risk, endogenous risk, endogenous manipulability, mechanical rebalancing, capacity test, structured products, indexed annuities, stress test, financial stability, predatory trading, systematic risk

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Biased Beliefs and Institutional Overcrowding

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 06 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2025
Simona Risteska and Francesco Nicolai
Warwick Business School and BI Norwegian Business School
Downloads 142 (527,599)

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Investor Behaviour, Biased Beliefs, Financial Intermediation, Portfolio Choice, Institutional Herding, Leveraged Loans, CLOs, Market Dynamics

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An Impossibility Theorem for Price-Based Risk Constraints

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 16 Mar 2026
Francesco Nicolai
BI Norwegian Business School
Downloads 77 (837,727)

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collateral design, margins and haircuts, secured funding constraints, endogenous risk measurement, central clearing, haircuts, VaR, volatility-managed, constraints, endogenous risk, manipulability, market impact, trading rule design, margin design