Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the ability of hedge funds and funds of hedge funds to generate absolute returns using fund level data. Design/methodology/approach - The absolute return profiles are identified using properties of the empirical distributions of fund returns. The...

An increasing number of investors are including futures-based commodity index funds in their portfolios. The argument is that these funds increase diversification, enhance returns and serve as an inflation hedge. Much of the recent literature served to reinforce these ideas. We update the...

This paper establishes the asymptotic distributions of the impulse response functions in panel vector autoregressions with a fixed time dimension. It also proves the asymptotic validity of a bootstrap approximation to their sampling distributions. The autoregressive parameters are estimated...