The hypothesis that futures price is an unbiased predictor of the future spot price has been oneof the most controversial topics in the empirical literature on market efficiency. The conflictingresults provided so far are not robust to the time period considered or to the econometricmethod...

We study whether fund families efficiently allocate their fund managers to differentmarket segments. Whether a fund manager can generate alpha simultaneouslydepends on her skills, and on the efficiency of the market segment in which she isemployed. We show that in the more efficient investment...

This paper analyses market efficiency and the role of the virtual location in digital markets using a data set containing more than 23,000 price observations from the online market for contact lenses as well as detailed information about online retailer and product characteristics. The data...

This paper investigates the relative role of price discovery between two long-term swap contracts that exchange U.S. dollars for Japanese yen - the cross-currency basis swap and the foreign exchange (FX) swap - using structural state space models. Our main findings are that: (i) the currency...

The trading of securities on multiple markets raises the question of each market’s sharein the discovery of the informationally efficient price. We exploit salient distributionalfeatures of multivariate financial price processes to uniquely determine these contributions.Thereby we resolve the...