Hedge funds with larger macroeconomic-risk betas do not earn higher returns, contrast to the theoretically predicted risk-return tradeoff. Meanwhile, high macro-beta funds deliver higher returns than low macro-beta funds following low-sentiment months, whereas the risk-return relation is flat...

Using political turnovers in mayoral appointments at the prefecture-city level in China, we show that investors incorporate rising local political uncertainty into bond pricing and relocate capital from municipal corporate bonds and privately issued bonds toward bonds issued by centrally...