We examine whether there is a relationship between foreign equity trading and average total volatility, measured as the value-weighted average of stock-return variances in the Istanbul Stock Exchange. We employ foreign equity purchase and sale data to track changes in foreign equity trading,...

This paper investigates empirically whether uncertainty about the expected returns on the market portfolio can explain the performance of hedge funds both in the cross-section and over time. We measure uncertainty via volatility of aggregate volatility (VOV) and construct an investable version...

This paper investigates empirically whether uncertainty about volatility of the market portfolio can explain the performance of hedge funds both in the cross-section and over time. We measure uncertainty about volatility of the market portfolio via volatility of aggregate volatility (VOV) and...