Determinants of hedge fund performance during ‘good’ and ‘bad’ economic periods

Dimitrios Stafylas, Athanasios Andrikopoulos

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Abstract

We analyse the drivers of hedge fund performance, focusing simultaneously on fund size, age, lockup period, fund strategies, business cycles and different market conditions, dealing with the omitted variable bias. We use exogenous break points and a switching Markov model to endogenously determine different market conditions. We find that HFs deliver positive alpha only during “good” times, irrespective of their fundamentals. During “bad” times, they minimise their systematic risk. Small and young funds, and those with redemption restrictions deliver higher alpha compared to their peers during “good” times. Finally, specific strategies deliver significantly negative alpha during “bad” times.
Original languageEnglish
Article number101130
JournalResearch in International Business and Finance
Volume52
Early online date17 Nov 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2020

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© 2019, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Keywords

  • Hedge fund performance
  • Hedge funds
  • Hedge funds characteristics

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