Hedge fund researchers have long known about backfill bias, typically correcting for it by truncating a fixed number of returns from the beginning of each fund's return series. However, we document that this practice decreases the percentage of backfilled returns by only 25%. Thus, empirical...

"This groundbreaking book will be the first to address the alternative data topic in the world of investing and risk management. It will illustrate, also by practical examples and code: How to navigate the thick jungle of generated data as of today, which techniques are the most suitable for...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1: Introduction and Theory -- CHAPTER 1: Alternative Data: The Lay of the Land -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 WHAT IS "ALTERNATIVE DATA"? -- 1.3 SEGMENTATION OF ALTERNATIVE DATA -- 1.4 THE MANY VS OF BIG DATA -- 1.5 WHY ALTERNATIVE...

1. Einführung: Kausale Aussagen und Prognosemodelle -- 2. Abhängige Variablen mit begrenztem Wertebereich -- 3. Zeitreihenanalyse und dynamische Modelle -- 4. Paneldatenanalyse -- 5. Instrumentvariablen -- 6. Strukturgleichungsmodelle -- 7. Fehlende Werte (Missing values) -- 8. Ergänzungen.