Dong Lou

HKUST Business School

Citi Professor of Business

Clear Water Bay

Kowloon

Hong Kong

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (29)

1.

Complicated Firms

AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2016
Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou
Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and HKUST Business School
Downloads 1,806 (20,752)
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Complicated trades, return predictability, stand alone, conglomerate, market frictions

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A Flow-Based Explanation for Return Predictability

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2010
Dong Lou
HKUST Business School
Downloads 1,532 (26,672)
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Capital flows, Price pressure, Return predictability, Performance persistence, Smart money effect, Stock price momentum

Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 13 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2019
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), HKUST Business School and Harvard Business School
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information, strategic release, firms, asset pricing, conference calls

Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News

NBER Working Paper No. w19429
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 14 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2023
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), HKUST Business School and Harvard Business School
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Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12302
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Sep 2017
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), HKUST Business School and Harvard Business School
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Wealth Redistribution in Bubbles and Crashes

Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 126, 2022, PBCSF-NIFR Research Paper
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2022
Li An, Dong Lou and Donghui Shi
Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance, HKUST Business School and Shanghai Stock Exchange
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bubbles and crashes, wealth inequality, market participation, social impact

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Citation 70

IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice

8th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference 2017
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 18 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2019
University of Notre Dame - Department of Finance, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), University of Texas at Dallas, HKUST Business School and Harvard Business School
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Tracked trades, Return predictability, Institutional trading, Insider trading

IQ from Ip: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice

NBER Working Paper No. w24801
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 16 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2023
University of Notre Dame - Department of Finance, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), University of Texas at Dallas, HKUST Business School and Harvard Business School
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Relative Basis and the Expected Returns of Commodity Futures

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 21 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2024
Ming Gu, Wenjin Kang, Dong Lou and Ke Tang
Xiamen University - School of Economics, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau, HKUST Business School and Institute of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University
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commodity markets, futures basis, convenience yield, commodity futures returns, theory of storage

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'Consistent' Earnings Surprises

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2014
Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Peking University HSBC Business School and HKUST Business School
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Stock recommendations, Biased earnings forecasts, Career concerns

'Consistent' Earnings Surprises

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 16 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2014
Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Peking University HSBC Business School and HKUST Business School
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Stock recommendations, Biased earnings forecasts, Career concerns

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Anticipated and Repeated Shocks in Liquid Markets

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 03 May 2013
Dong Lou, Hongjun Yan and Jinfan Zhang
HKUST Business School, DePaul University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
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Liquidity, Capital mobility, Supply shocks, Treasury auctions

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Citation 6

Margin Trading and Leverage Management

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2021-29
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 11 Mar 2021
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business, Stanford University - Knight Management Center, HKUST Business School, Yale School of Management and Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance
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margin trading, leverage management, liquidation policy, contagion

Margin Trading and Leverage Management

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 22 Mar 2021
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business, Stanford University - Knight Management Center, HKUST Business School, Yale School of Management and Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance
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margin trading, leverage management, liquidation policy, contagion

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A Test of the Self-Serving Attribution Bias: Evidence from Mutual Funds

Fourth Singapore International Conference on Finance 2010 Paper
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2010
Darwin Choi and Dong Lou
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance and HKUST Business School
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Overconfidence, Active Share, Mutual fund performance

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Cloaked Trading

Journal of Investment Consulting, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2016
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2017
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), HKUST Business School and Harvard Business School
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Strategic Trading, Information, Asset Management, Investment

Cloaked Trading

Journal of Investment Consulting, Vol. 17, No. 2, p. 69-80, 2016
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 07 Feb 2017
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), HKUST Business School and Harvard Business School
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Leverage Network and Market Contagion

PBCSF-NIFR Research Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 28 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2019
Jiangze Bian, Zhi Da, Dong Lou and Hao Zhou
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business, HKUST Business School and Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance
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Margin trading, leverage, contagion, network centrality

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Cross-Market Timing in Security Issuance

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2013
Pengjie Gao and Dong Lou
University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business and HKUST Business School
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Debt misvaluation, Market timing, Security issuance, Flow-induced trading

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Superstar Firms and College Major Choice

9th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference 2018, HKUST Business School Research Paper No. 2024-152
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 15 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2024
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance, HKUST Business School and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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College Major Choice, Human Capital Investment, Stock Return Skewness, News Tone Skewness, Salience

The Effect of Superstar Firms on College Major Choice

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12296
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Sep 2017
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance, HKUST Business School and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Maximizing Short-Term Stock Prices through Advertising

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2010
Dong Lou
HKUST Business School
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advertising, catering, insider sales, equity offerings, investor attention

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Industry Window Dressing

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 06 Apr 2016
Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou
University of Notre Dame - Department of Finance, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and HKUST Business School
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Industry window dressing, opportunistic management, discontinuity, favorable industries

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Bond Supply, Yield Drifts, and Liquidity Provision Before Macroeconomic Announcements

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Research Paper No. 24-14
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 23 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2024
Dong Lou, Gabor Pinter and Semih Uslu
HKUST Business School, Bank of England and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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Macroeconomic Announcements, Yield Drift, Bond Supply, Liquidity Provision

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An Anatomy of Long-Short Equity Funds

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 29 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2022
Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, HKUST Business School and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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Long-Short Equity Mutual Funds, Cash Holdings, Portfolio Beta, Fund Performance, Flow-Performance Relations

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Citation 27

Informed Trading in Government Bond Markets

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 11 May 2020
Bank of England, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, HKUST Business School and Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management
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government bonds, informed trading, return predictability, asset managers

Informed trading in government bond markets

Bank of England Working Paper No. 871
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 18 Jun 2020
Bank of England, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, HKUST Business School and Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management
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Government bonds, informed trading, return predictability, asset managers

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The Rate of Communication

7th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference 2016
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2020
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University and HKUST Business School
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Social Interaction, Investor Communication, Information Diffusion

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An Unintended Consequence of Holding Dollar Assets

Bank of England Working Paper No. 953
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 08 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 08 May 2025
Bank of England, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, HKUST Business School and Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management
Downloads 233 (282,518)
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Covid crisis, gilt yields, variation margin, FX derivatives, global reserve currency, currency hedging, dollar assets

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Ripples into Waves: Trade Networks, Economic Activity, and Asset Prices

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2021
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Central University of Finance and Economics, HKUST Business School and London School of Economics
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Sovereign CDS, Return predictability, Trade networks, Limited attention, Information aggregation

Offsetting Disagreement and Security Prices

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2020
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, HKUST Business School and University of International Business and Economics
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Investor Disagreement, Belief Crossing, Portfolio Discounts

Offsetting Disagreement and Security Prices

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12295
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Sep 2017
Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, HKUST Business School and University of International Business and Economics
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Inferring Mutual Fund Intra-Quarter Trading: An Application to ESG Window Dressing

PBCSF-NIFR Research Paper
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 04 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2025
Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, HKUST Business School, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and CITIC Securities
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Mutual Funds, Intra-quarter Trading, Novel Method, ESG, Window Dressing

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Inferring Mutual Fund Intra-Quarter Trading: An Application to ESG Window Dressing

HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute Paper No. 2024/002, HKUST Business School Research Paper No. 2024-182, PBCSF-NIFR Research Paper
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 10 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2025
Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, HKUST Business School, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and CITIC Securities
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Mutual Funds, Intra-quarter Trading, Novel Method, ESG, Window Dressing

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Wealth Redistribution in Bubbles and Crashes

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15029
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2020
Dong Lou
HKUST Business School
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bubbles and crashes, market participation, social impact, Wealth Inequality

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The Booms and Busts of Beta Arbitrage

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11531
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 26 Sep 2016
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, HKUST Business School and London School of Economics
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betting against beta, crowded trades, positive-feedback trading

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Informed Trading in Government Bond Markets

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15028
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2020
Dong Lou
HKUST Business School
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asset managers, Government bonds, Informed trading, return predictability

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Bond supply, yield drifts, and liquidity provision before macroeconomic announcements

Bank of England Working Paper No. 998
Posted: 24 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2024
Gabor Pinter, Semih Uslu and Dong Lou
Bank of England, Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School and HKUST Business School

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bond supply, Macroeconomics announcements, yield drift, liquidity provision