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Essays On Hedge Fund Trading And Performance, Qiping Huang
Essays On Hedge Fund Trading And Performance, Qiping Huang
Theses and Dissertations--Finance and Quantitative Methods
In the first essay, I create a hedge fund informed trading measure (ITM) that separates information related trades from liquidity driven trades. The results indicate that ITM predicts future stock returns at the trade level, thus is associated with information. By aggregating the most informed trades at the stock level, I find that stocks heavily purchased by informed hedge funds earn a significant alpha. The results indicate that the ITM performs better than some previously documented measures and is robust to two different versions of the measure. The second essay exploits the expiring nature of hedge fund lockups to create …