Our basic premise is that fund managers performance is related to superior information about an asset payoff. We investigate the relationship between managerial skills and trading behavior within a two-period rational expectation equilibrium (REE) model where agents trade on private information...

In this paper we study the drawdown status of hedge funds as a hedge fund characteristic related to performance. A hedge fund's drawdown status is the decile to which the fund belongs in the industry's drawdown distribution (at a given point in time). Economic reasoning suggests that both the...

Die deutsche Wirtschaft befindet sich derzeit mitten in einem konjunkturellen Aufschwung, der aber - wie das MEMORANDUM 2007 zeigt - keinesfalls als Beginn einer längeren Wachstumsphase interpretiert werden darf. Die jüngste Belebung ist ein ganz normales konjunkturelles Phänomen und wenn der...