A Chari - Annual Review of Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Over the last two decades, the unprecedented increase in non-bank financial intermediation, particularly the rise of open-end mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, accounts for …
Benchmarking incentivizes fund managers to invest a fraction of their funds' assets in their benchmark indexes, and such demand is inelastic. We construct a measure of inelastic …
AM Buffa, D Vayanos… - Journal of Political …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
We model asset management as a continuum between active and passive: managers can deviate from benchmark indices to exploit noise trader–induced distortions, but agency …
A Chinco, M Sammon - Journal of Financial Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Each time a stock gets added to or dropped from an index, we ask:“How much money would have to be tracking that index to explain the huge spike in rebalancing volume we observe …
Emerging market corporations have significantly increased their borrowing in international debt markets since 2008. We provide a detailed dive into this borrowing by showing that it …
We examine the governance implications of passive fund growth. In our model, investors allocate capital between passive funds, active funds, and private savings, and funds' fees …
We propose a novel objective function for constructing dynamic investment strategies with the goal of outperforming an investment benchmark at multiple points of evaluation during …
T Nenova - Available at SSRN 4736704, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper provides novel empirical evidence on portfolio rebalancing in international bond markets through the prism of investors' demand for bonds. Using a granular dataset of global …
We propose a tractable model of asset management in which benchmarking arises endogenously, and analyze its welfare consequences. Fund managers' portfolios are not …