George O. Aragon

Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department

W. P. Carey School of Business

PO Box 873906

Tempe, AZ 85287-3906

United States

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Onshore and Offshore Hedge Funds: Are They Twins?

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 06 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2011
George O. Aragon, Bing Liang and Hyuna Park
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Brooklyn College - CUNY
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offshore hedge funds, lock-up provision, liquidity risk, master-feeder structure

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Hedge Funds as Liquidity Providers: Evidence from the Lehman Bankruptcy

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Hedge Funds as Liquidity Providers: Evidence from the Lehman Bankruptcy

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Aug 2009
George O. Aragon and Philip E. Strahan
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Hedge Funds as Liquidity Providers: Evidence from the Lehman Bankruptcy

NBER Working Paper No. w15336
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2009
George O. Aragon and Philip E. Strahan
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Interest Rate Swaps: An Asset Allocation Perspective

Boston College Carroll School of Management Working Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Mar 2002
George O. Aragon
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
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Swaps, convexity bias, Eurodollar futures, spanning

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Liquidity Transformation and Financial Fragility: Evidence from Funds of Hedge Funds

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 11 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 15 May 2018
Vikas Agarwal, George O. Aragon and Zhen Shi
Georgia State University, Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department and Georgia State University
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funds of hedge funds, liquidity transformation, asset liability management, investor fragility, cash holdings

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On Tournament Behavior in Hedge Funds: High Water Marks, Managerial Horizon, and the Backfilling Bias

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On Tournament Behavior in Hedge Funds: High Water Marks, Managerial Horizon, and the Backfilling Bias

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2010
George O. Aragon and Vikram K. Nanda
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department and University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management - Department of Finance & Managerial Economics
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hedge funds, tournaments, risk-taking, backfilling, high-water marks

On Tournament Behavior in Hedge Funds: High Water Marks, Managerial Horizon, and the Backfilling Bias

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Mar 2010
Vikram K. Nanda and George O. Aragon
University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management - Department of Finance & Managerial Economics and Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
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hedge funds, tournaments, risk-taking, backfilling, high-water marks

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High-Water Marks and Hedge Fund Compensation

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Jan 2010
George O. Aragon and Jun Qian
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department and Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University
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Hedge Fund, High-Water Mark, Adverse Selection, Illiquidity, Lockup.

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Timing Multiple Markets: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 24 Jul 2003
George O. Aragon
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
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Performance Evaluation, Market Timing, Styles, Hedge Funds

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Why Do Hedge Funds Avoid Disclosure? Evidence from Confidential 13F Filings

AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2013
George O. Aragon, Michael G. Hertzel and Zhen Shi
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department and Georgia State University
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Disclosure, Hedge Fund Performance, Financial Regulation

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Onshore and Offshore Hedge Funds: Are They Twins?

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 03 Mar 2012
Bing Liang, George O. Aragon and Hyuna Park
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance, Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department and Brooklyn College - CUNY
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offshore hedge funds, lock-up provision, liquidity risk, master-feeder structure

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Who Benefits in a Crisis? Evidence from Hedge Fund Stock and Option Holdings

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2018
George O. Aragon, J. Spencer Martin and Zhen Shi
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and Georgia State University
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Hedge Funds; Opportunistic Trading; Lockups; Options; Derivatives; Financial Crises

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Hedge Fund Liquidity Management

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 11 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2017
George O. Aragon, A. Tolga Ergun, Mila Getmansky Sherman and Giulio Girardi
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance and Securities and Exchange Commission
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Liquidity Management; Hedge Funds; Illiquidity; Cash Holdings; Fund Flows

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Strategic Delays and Clustering in Hedge Fund Reported Returns

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Strategic Delays and Clustering in Hedge Fund Reported Returns

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 03 Nov 2014
George O. Aragon and Vikram K. Nanda
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department and University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management - Department of Finance & Managerial Economics
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hedge funds, smoothing, clustering, strategic delay, disclosure

Strategic Delays and Clustering in Hedge Fund Reported Returns

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 15 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2013
George O. Aragon and Vikram K. Nanda
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department and University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management - Department of Finance & Managerial Economics
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disclosure, hedge funds, clustering, return smoothing

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The Use of Credit Default Swaps by Bond Mutual Funds: Liquidity Provision and Counterparty Risk

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2017
George O. Aragon, Lei Li and Jun Qian
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, Federal Reserve Board and Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University
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bond funds, credit default swaps, crisis, liquidity provision, counterparty risk

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Exploration or Exploitation? Hedge Funds in Venture Capital

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Exploration or Exploitation? Hedge Funds in Venture Capital

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Oct 2018
George O. Aragon, Emma Li and Laura Anne Lindsey
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, Department of Finance and Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
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venture capital, hedge funds, IPO, performance

Exploration or Exploitation? Hedge Funds in Venture Capital

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Oct 2018
George O. Aragon, Emma Li and Laura Anne Lindsey
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, Department of Finance and Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
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Venture capital, hedge funds, IPO, performance

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Do Properly Anticipated Prices Fluctuate Randomly? Evidence from VIX Futures Markets

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Do Properly Anticipated Prices Fluctuate Randomly? Evidence from VIX Futures Markets

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 May 2018 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2018
George O. Aragon, Rajnish Mehra and Sunil Wahal
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P Carey School of Business, Department of Economics and Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
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VIX futures, volatility risk premium, mean-reversion, momentum

Do Properly Anticipated Prices Fluctuate Randomly? Evidence from VIX Futures Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w24575
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 May 2018
George O. Aragon, Rajnish Mehra and Sunil Wahal
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P Carey School of Business, Department of Economics and Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
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Investor Protection and Capital Fragility: Evidence from Hedge Funds Around the World

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 10 May 2019
George O. Aragon, Vikram K. Nanda and Haibei Zhao
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management - Department of Finance & Managerial Economics and Lehigh University
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Corruption, hedge funds, flow-performance, fragility, operational risk

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Portfolio Performance Evaluation

Foundations and Trends in Finance, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 83-190, 2006
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
George O. Aragon and Wayne E. Ferson
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department and University of Southern California
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Portfolio performance, mutual fund performance, hedge funds, managed portfolios

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Share Restrictions and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry

Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 83, pp. 33-58, 2007
Posted: 07 Feb 2006
George O. Aragon
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department

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Liquidity, transactions costs, hedge funds