Hedge fund market runs during financial crises

Financial Market Runs

Our paper offers a minimalist model of a run on a financial market. The prime ingredient is that each risk-neutral investor fears having to liquidate after a run, but before prices can recover back to fundamental values. During the run, only the risk-averse market-making sector is willing to absorb shares. To avoid having to possibly liquidate shares at themarginal post-run price—in which case ...

Hedge Fund Redemption Restrictions, Financial Crisis, and Fund Performance

This paper examines the impact of hedge fund redemption restrictions such as lockup period, notice period, and redemption period on fund flow, risk, and performance. We first examine the effects of redemption restrictions conditional on past poor performance. We then examine the differential impact of redemption restrictions under different market conditions. We find that during normal periods,...

Liquidity and Financial Market Runs

We model a run on a financial market, in which each risk-neutral investor fears having to liquidate shares after a run, but before prices can recover back to fundamental values. To avoid having to possibly liquidate shares at the marginal post-run price—in which case the risk-averse market-making sector will already hold a lot of share inventory and thus be more reluctant to absorb additional s...

Using Financial Derivatives to Hedge Against Market

Hedge Fund Performance Persistence over Different Market Conditions

We provide novel evidence that hedge fund performance is persistent following periods of relative hedge fund market weakness, but not following periods of relative market strength. Specifically, we construct two performance measures, DownsideReturns and UpsideReturns, conditioning on whether the overall hedge fund market return is below or above its sample median. After adjusting for risk and f...