Charles Cao

Pennsylvania State University

Professor of Finance

Department of Finance

Smeal College of Business

University Park, PA 16802

United States

http://www.personal.psu.edu/qxc2/cao.html

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1.

The Informational Content of an Open Limit Order Book

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Jul 2004
Charles Cao, Oliver Hansch and Xiaoxin Wang Beardsley
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and Southern Illinois University
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Limit order book, price discovery, order placement strategy, demand and supply

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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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Why Does Hedge Fund Alpha Decrease Over Time? Evidence from Individual Hedge Funds

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2021
Charles Cao and Zhaodong Zhong
Pennsylvania State University and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick
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hedge funds, performance, alpha, flows, capacity constraints, counter-factual analysis

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The Information Content of Option-Implied Volatility for Credit Default Swap Valuation

FDIC Center for Financial Research, Working Paper No. 2007-08
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2012
Charles Cao, Zhaodong Zhong and Fan Yu
Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Credit default swap spread, option-implied volatility, volatility risk premium, informed trading

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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

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Informational Content of Option Volume Prior to Takeovers

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 27 Oct 2003
Charles Cao, John M. Griffin and Zhiwu Chen
Pennsylvania State University, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance and University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Business Economics (HKU Business School)
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Which Hedge Fund Styles Hedge Against Bad Times?

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 18 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2015
Charles Cao, David Rapach and Guofu Zhou
Pennsylvania State University, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
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Asset-based style factors, Multifactor model, Regime switching, Financial stress,Threshold regression, Portfolio performance

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Does Insider Trading Impair Market Liquidity? Evidence from IPO Lockup Expirations

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Does Insider Trading Impair Market Liquidity? Evidence from IPO Lockup Expirations

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Apr 2003
Charles Cao, Laura Casares Field and Gordon R. Hanka
Pennsylvania State University, University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance
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Initial Public Offerings, Lockups, Insider Trading

Does Insider Trading Impair Market Liquidity? Evidence from IPO Lockup Expirations

Posted: 27 Apr 2003
Charles Cao, Laura Casares Field and Gordon R. Hanka
Pennsylvania State University, University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance

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Initial Public Offerings, Lockups, Insider Trading

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Hedge Funds and Stock Price Formation

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 74, No. 3, 2018, pp. 54–69
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2018
Charles Cao, Yong Chen, William N. Goetzmann and Bing Liang
Pennsylvania State University, Texas A&M University - Department of Finance, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance and University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance
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Hedge funds, stock holdings, stock mispricing, investment value, arbitrage

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Does Working from Home Impair Mutual Fund Performance?

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 04 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2022
Charles Cao, Timothy T. Simin and Han Xiao
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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Mutual Funds, COVID-19, Work from Home, Remote Work, Stay-at-home Order

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Do Mutual Fund Managers Time Market Liquidity?

Journal of Financial Markets, Vol. 16, Iss. 2, Pg 279–307, 2013
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2013
Charles Cao, Timothy T. Simin and Ying Wang
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and State University of New York at Albany - School of Business
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Liquidity timing, mutual fund performance, market liquidity, bootstrap

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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamic Relationship between Mutual Fund Flow and Market Return Volatility

Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 32, No. 10, pp. 2111-2123, 2008
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Nov 2008
Charles Cao, Eric C. Chang and Ying Wang
Pennsylvania State University, University of Hong Kong - School of Business and State University of New York at Albany - School of Business
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Mutual fund flow, Market volatility, Volatility timing, Fund inflow and fund outflow

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What Is the Nature of Hedge Fund Manager Skills? Evidence from the Risk Arbitrage Strategy

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2014
Charles Cao, Bradley A. Goldie, Bing Liang and Lubomir Petrasek
Pennsylvania State University, Miami University, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Hedge funds, hedge fund holdings, performance evaluation, risk arbitrage strategy

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Assessing Models of Individual Equity Option Prices

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2020
Gurdip Bakshi, Gurdip Bakshi, Charles Cao and Zhaodong Zhong
Temple University - Fox School of Business and ManagementFox School of Business, Pennsylvania State University and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick
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individual equity option-models, risk-neutral kurtosis, return-jumps, volatility-jumps, stochastic volatility, option-implied return distributions

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Predicting the Equity Premium with the Implied Volatility Spread

Journal of Financial Markets, Vol.51, 2020
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 01 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2020
Charles Cao, Timothy T. Simin and Han Xiao
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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Implied volatility spread, Equity premium, Prediction

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The Economics of Hedge Fund Startups: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 13 Aug 2020
Charles Cao, Grant V Farnsworth and Hong Zhang
Pennsylvania State University, Texas Christian University and Singapore Management University, LKCSB
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Hedge Funds, Inceptions, Startups, Search Frictions

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Liquidity Risk and Institutional Ownership

Journal of Financial Markets, Forthcoming, FEDS Working Paper No. 2011-49
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 17 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2015
Charles Cao and Lubomir Petrasek
Pennsylvania State University and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Liquidity risk, institutional investors, hedge funds

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Information Choice, Uncertainty, and Expected Returns

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 34, Issue 12, pp. 5977–6031, 2021
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 10 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 03 May 2023
Charles Cao, David Gempesaw and Timothy T. Simin
Pennsylvania State University, Miami University and Pennsylvania State University
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Information Choice, Learning, Expected Returns, Cross-Section of Stock Returns, Volatility, Risk, Uncertainty

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Index Membership and Small Firm Financing

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2020
Charles Cao, Matthew Gustafson and Raisa Velthuis
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and Villanova University - Department of Finance
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Bank Borrowing, Seasoned Equity Offering, Regression Discontinuity, Index Membership, Russell 2000 Index

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An Anatomy of Cryptocurrency Sentiment

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Jul 2023
Mehmet Canayaz, Charles Cao, Giang Nguyen and Qiang Wang
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and Pennsylvania State University
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cryptocurrencies, sentiment, return, volatility, social media, market exuberance

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Do Hedge Funds Prefer Safe Stocks? Revisiting Hedge Fund Preferences for Stock Characteristics

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 Jun 2014
Charles Cao, Jeremiah Green and Jiahan Li
Pennsylvania State University, Texas A&M University - Department of Accounting and University of Notre Dame
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hedge funds, stock characteristics, cross-section of returns, safe stocks

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Style Drift: Evidence from Small-Cap Mutual Funds

Journal of Banking & Finance, Vol. 78, 42-57 (May 2017)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 11 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2017
Charles Cao, Peter Iliev and Raisa Velthuis
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University - Department of Finance and Villanova University - Department of Finance
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Mutual Funds; Small-Cap; Investment Objectives; Style Drift

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Liquidity Characteristics of Market Anomalies and Institutional Trading

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2022
Charles Cao, Bing Liang, Tong Yao and Andrew (Jianzhong) Zhang
Pennsylvania State University, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance, University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business and University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Department of Finance
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Institutional trading, market anomalies, liquidity characteristics, market efficiency

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The Decline of Informed Trading in the Equity and Options Markets

Journal of Alternative Investments (2018), Volume 21 (2), 16-29
Posted: 02 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2019
Charles Cao, David Gempesaw and Timothy T. Simin
Pennsylvania State University, Miami University and Pennsylvania State University

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informed trading, hedge funds, implied volatility, stock return predictability

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Real Estate Risk and Hedge Fund Returns

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2016
Posted: 04 Mar 2016
Brent W. Ambrose, Charles Cao and Walter D'Lima
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and Florida International University (FIU) - Hollo School of Real Estate

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Hedge funds; Real estate; Perofrmance analysis; Portfolio theory

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Liquidity Costs, Return Smoothing, and Investor Flows: Evidence from a Separate Account Platform

Asian Finance Association (AsFA) 2013 Conference
Posted: 24 May 2013
Charles Cao, Grant V Farnsworth, Bing Liang and Andrew W. Lo
Pennsylvania State University, Texas Christian University, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering

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Pricing Credit Default Swaps with Option-Implied Volatility

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 67, No. 4, 2011
Posted: 09 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2011
Charles Cao, Fan Yu and Zhaodong Zhong
Pennsylvania State University, Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick

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Derivatives, Credit Derivatives Markets and Instruments, Modeling and Pricing Credit Derivatives, Options Markets and Instruments, Volatility Issues

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Can Growth Options Explain the Trend in Idiosyncratic Risk?

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Can Growth Options Explain the Trend in Idiosyncratic Risk?

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Posted: 10 Oct 2006
Charles Cao, Timothy T. Simin and Jing Zhao
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and Portland State University - The School of Business

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Idiosyncratic volatility, growth options, real options

Can Growth Options Explain the Trend in Idiosyncratic Risk?

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 21, Issue 6, pp. 2599-2633, 2008
Posted: 15 Dec 2008
Charles Cao, Timothy T. Simin and Jing Zhao
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and Portland State University - The School of Business

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Do Call Prices and the Underlying Stock Always Move in the Same Direction?

Posted: 14 Oct 1999
Zhiwu Chen, Gurdip Bakshi, Gurdip Bakshi and Charles Cao
University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Business Economics (HKU Business School), Temple University - Fox School of Business and ManagementFox School of Business and Pennsylvania State University

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Price Discovery Without Trading: Evidence from the NASDAQ Pre-Opening

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Price Discovery Without Trading: Evidence from the NASDAQ Pre-Opening

Posted: 11 Oct 1999
Charles Cao, Eric Ghysels and Frank Hatheway
Pennsylvania State University, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., NASD

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Price Discovery Without Trading: Evidence from the NASDAQ Pre-Opening

Posted: 03 Nov 1999
Charles Cao, Eric Ghysels and Frank Hatheway
Pennsylvania State University, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., NASD

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Tick Size, Spread and Volume

J. OF FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION, Vol. 5 No. 1, 1996
Posted: 16 Jun 1998
Charles Cao and Hyuk Choe
Pennsylvania State University and Seoul National University - College of Business Administration

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Pricing and Hedging Long-Term Options

Journal of Econometrics, 1998
Posted: 06 May 1998
Zhiwu Chen, Gurdip Bakshi, Gurdip Bakshi and Charles Cao
University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Business Economics (HKU Business School), Temple University - Fox School of Business and ManagementFox School of Business and Pennsylvania State University

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Empirical Performance of Alternative Option Pricing Models

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Empirical Performance of Alternative Option Pricing Models

J. OF FINANCE
Posted: 30 Apr 1997
Zhiwu Chen, Charles Cao, Gurdip Bakshi and Gurdip Bakshi
University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Business Economics (HKU Business School), Pennsylvania State University and Temple University - Fox School of Business and ManagementFox School of Business

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Empirical Performance of Alternative Option Pricing Models

Posted: 06 Mar 1997
Zhiwu Chen, Charles Cao, Gurdip Bakshi and Gurdip Bakshi
University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Business Economics (HKU Business School), Pennsylvania State University and Temple University - Fox School of Business and ManagementFox School of Business

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Decimalization and Competition Among Exchanges: Evidence from the Toronto Stock Exchange Cross-Listed Securities

Posted: 19 Feb 1997
Charles Cao and Hyuk Choe
Pennsylvania State University and Seoul National University - College of Business Administration

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Does the Specialist Matter? Differential Execution Costs and Inter-Security Subsidization on the NYSE

Posted: 19 Feb 1997
Charles Cao, Hyuk Choe and Frank Hatheway
Pennsylvania State University, Seoul National University - College of Business Administration and National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., NASD

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