Hedge Fund Leverage / Andrew Ang, Sergiy Gorovyy, Gregory B. van Inwegen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ang, Andrew.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Gorovyy, Sergiy.

van Inwegen, Gregory B.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w16801.

NBER working paper series no. w16801

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.

Summary:

We investigate the leverage of hedge funds in the time series and cross section. Hedge fund leverage is counter-cyclical to the leverage of listed financial intermediaries and decreases prior to the start of the financial crisis in mid-2007. Hedge fund leverage is lowest in early 2009 when the market leverage of investment banks is highest. Changes in hedge fund leverage tend to be more predictable by economy-wide factors than by fund-specific characteristics. In particular, decreases in funding costs and increases in market values both forecast increases in hedge fund leverage. Decreases in fund return volatilities predict future increases in leverage.

Notes:

Print version record

February 2011.