Using data from the Lipper TASS hedge fund database over 1994-2012, we examine the role of liquidity risk in explaining the relationship between asset size and hedge fund performance. While a significant negative size-performance relationship exists for all hedge funds, once we stratify our...

Using hedge fund returns and county-level religiosity data during 1996-2013, we examine the effects of local religious beliefs on hedge fund risk-taking behaviors. We find that local religiosity is significantly negatively related to both total and idiosyncratic volatilities of hedge funds, even...

The existing literature studies the relationship between institutional investors and the risk of stock price crash from multiple dimensions. Based on the phenomenon that institutional investors hold the shares of several listed companies in the same industry, this paper takes the A-share listed...