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Books
Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests & Market Prices Are Determined, Lasse Heje Pedersen, Princeton University Press, 2015.
Trading strategies, a new view of financial markets, and interviews with 8 great investors. Selected reviews (see much more on the book website):
Market Liquidity: Asset Pricing, Risk, and Crises, Yakov Amihud, Haim Mendelson, and Lasse Heje Pedersen,
Cambridge University Press, 2013. Review in Quantitative Finance and beyond, Korajczyk: "pivotal in furthering our understanding of the effects of illiquidity on asset pricing."
PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS
Responsible Investing: The ESG-Efficient Frontier, Lasse Heje Pedersen, Shaun Fitzgibbons, and Lukasz Pomorski, forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics. ESG factors. What happens when stocks’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores provide information about firm fundamentals and affect investor preferences? Featured in Institutional Investor, Alpha Architect, IPE. Enhanced Portfolio Optimization, Lasse Heje Pedersen, Abhilash Babu, and Ari Levine, forthcoming Financial Analyst Journal. Optimization that works - strong empirical results! It is very simple. Yet, it encompasses, and explains intuitively, Black-Litterman, robust optimization, and more. Nice summary in Alpha Architect. Deep Value, Clifford S. Asness, John Liew, Lasse Heje Pedersen, and Ashwin Thapar, forthcoming The Journal of Portfolio Management. What really happens when stocks get deeply cheap or expensive? What drives the value effect - risk, (anti)bubbles, or noise? We provide answers and a cool strategy. Betting Against Correlation: Testing Theories of the Low-Risk Effect, Clifford S. Asness, Andrea Frazzini, Niels Joachim Gormsen, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2020), Journal of Financial Economics, 135 (3), 629-652. Two cool new factors separate competing theories: BAC is strong, consistent with leverage constraints; SMAX works too, consistent with lottery demand. Roger F. Murray Prize, 2017. Featured in WSJ, Institutional Investor, Alpha Architect, Morningstar, Barron's (blog), Cliff's Perspective. Fact and Fiction about Low-Risk Investing, Ron Alquist, Andrea Frazzini, Antti Ilmanen, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2020), The Journal of Portfolio Management, 46 (6) 72-92. Reprinted in German. Separates fact from fiction, e.g., saying that the CAPM is dead and so is low-risk investing is fiction; If the CAPM is dead, then low-risk investing is alive. Trends Everywhere, Abhilash Babu, Ari Levine, Yao Hua Ooi, Lasse Heje Pedersen, and Erik Stamelos (2020), Journal of Investment Management, 18 (1), 52-68. Out of sample evidence on time series momentum - new assets and factors. Economics with Market Liquidity Risk, Viral V. Acharya and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2019), Critical Finance Review, 8 (1-2), 111-125. Market liquidity risk affects asset pricing, investment management, corporate finance, banking, financial crises, macroeconomics, monetary policy, fiscal policy. Quality Minus Junk, Cliff Asness, Andrea Frazzini, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2019), Review of Accounting Studies, 24 (1), 34–112. QMJ factors. We provide a definition of "quality stocks" and study the price and return of quality. Featured in Business Week, Seeking Alpha. Generalized Recovery, Christian Skov Jensen, David Lando, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2019), Journal of Financial Economics, 33 (1), 154-174. A simple way to understand recovery: count equations and unknowns. No assumptions on the probability distribution, thus generalizing Ross. Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management, Nicolae Garleanu and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2018), The Journal of Finance, 73 (4), 1663-1712. A new model of how asset management and asset markets actually work! Testable implications for asset pricing, mutual funds, hedge funds, PE, VC. Journal of Finance's Brattle Distinguished Paper Prize. AIM Investment Center Best Paper Award 2016. Featured in BloombergView, and mentioned again in BloombergView. Buffett's Alpha, Andrea Frazzini, David Kabiller, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2018), Financial Analysts Journal, 74 (4): 35-55. Slides. We explain Buffett's amazing record based on BAB, QMJ, and leverage. Quiz: What is Buffett's SR? Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence, Top Award. Movie. F eatured in MarketWatch, Financial Times, The Economist, Reuters, Reuters Video, Robert Shiller@CSI, CBS News, Pensions and Investments, Forbes, Børsen. Size Matters, if You Control Your Junk, Clifford S. Asness, Andrea Frazzini, Ronen Israel, Tobias J. Moskowitz, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2018), Journal of Financial Economics, 129 (3), 479-509. The size factor is weak because small firms are junky on average. Controlling for junk (or, its inverse, quality), produces a significant size premium. Sharpening the Arithmetic of Active Management, Lasse Heje Pedersen (2018), Financial Analysts Journal, 74 (1), 21-36. Is active management doomed in aggregate and, if so, is the financial system doomed? For the future of asset management, read here. Featured in The Economist, Bloomberg, WSJ, Cliff's Perspective, Risk, AlphaArchitect. Risk Everywhere: Modeling and Managing Volatility, Tim Bollerslev, Benjamin Hood, John Huss, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2018), The Review of Financial Studies, 31 (7), 2729-2773. HExp: a new, simple, and powerful volatility model that works everywhere. How valuable is this, and any other risk models, in terms of dollars, not just R2? Carry, Ralph Koijen, Tobias Moskowitz, Lasse H. Pedersen, and Evert Vrugt (2018), Journal of Financial Economics, 127 (2), 197-225. Lead paper. Carry factors. Carry is an observable component of expected returns, predicting the cross-section and time series of equity, bond, currency, and commodity returns. Journal of Financial Economics's Fama/DFA Prize, second place winner, 2018. Featured in ETF.com. A Century of Evidence on Trend-Following Investing, Brian Hurst, Yao Hua Ooi, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2017), The Journal of Portfolio Management, 44 (1), 15-29. Lead paper. Novel hand-collected data: time series momentum has worked each decade since 1880, during crises, and across economic environments. Featured in ValueWalk and AlphaArchitect. Measuring Systemic Risk, Viral Acharya, Lasse Heje Pedersen, Thomas Philippon, and Matt Richardson (2017), The Review of Financial Studies, 30 (1), 2-47. Editor's Choice (lead paper). An economic model of how to measure and manage systemic risk with empirical support from the recent crisis. Associated real time systemic risk rankings here. Dynamic Portfolio Choice with Frictions, Nicolae Garleanu and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2016), Journal of Economic Theory, 165, 487–516. Appendix. Optimal high-frequency trading: portfolio choice with transaction costs and the connection between continuous and discrete time. Early Option Exercise: Never Say Never, Mads Vestergaard Jensen and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2016), Journal of Financial Economics, 121 (2), 278-299. Appendix. Theory and evidence overturning Merton's rule that one should never exercise a call early or convert a convertible bond. Which Trend is Your Friend?, Ari Levine and Lasse H. Pedersen (2016), Financial Analysts Journal, 72 (3), 51-66. We show that time series momentum and moving average crossovers are equivalent representations of a large class of trends, incl. HP filter, Kalman filter. Betting Against Beta, Andrea Frazzini and Lasse Heje Pedersen
(2014),
Journal of Financial Economics 111 (1), 1-25. Lead paper. Slides. Excel. BAB factors.
Leverage constraints help explain the relation between risk and return in each of the major asset classes, including
why high beta is low alpha.
Fama/DFA First Prize for best paper in the Journal of Financial Economics, 2014.
Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award, 2011. Roger F. Murray Prize,
2011.
Featured in The Economist and Financial Times.
Low-Risk Investing Without Industry Bets, Cliff Asness, Andrea Frazzini, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2014), Financial Analysts Journal, 70 (4), 24-41.
Betting against beta works within each industry and across industries.
Monitoring Leverage, John Geanakoplos and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2014), ch. 8, 113-127, in Risk Topography: Systemic Risk and Macro Modeling, University of Chicago Press, ed. M. Brunnermeier and A. Krishnamurthy.
Monitoring leverage and margin requirement is a model-free way to monitor systemic risk and the development of liquidity spirals.
Dynamic Trading with Predictable Returns and Transaction Costs, Nicolae
Garleanu and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2013), The
Journal of Finance 68(6), 2309-2340. Slides.
Picture.
Markowitz portfolio is a
moving target. Cool closed-form optimal strategy: aim in front of the target and trade partially towards the
aim. Quant of the year, J-F Bouchaud: "the authors credited for this are Gârleanu and Pedersen, and that’s now a classic paper."
Value and Momentum Everywhere, Cliff Asness, Tobias Moskowitz, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2013), The Journal of
Finance 68(3), 929-985. Slides.
VME
factors.
Value and momentum exists across global equities, commodities,currencies, and bonds - with intriguing val-mom
correlation structure.
Referenced in Nobel Prize Committee’s Scientific Background, 2013. Featured in
the New York
Times and Marketwatch.
Demystifying Managed Futures, Brian Hurst, Yao Hua Ooi, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2013), Journal of Investment
Management 11(3), 42-58.
Time series momentum can
explain the return of managed futures hedge funds and CTAs.
Time Series Momentum, Tobias Moskowitz, Yao Hua Ooi, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2012), Journal of Financial
Economics 104(2), 228-250. Lead paper.Slides. TSMOM
factors.
Striking trends in returns in every major asset class - linked to the trading activity of hedgers and speculators.
Winner of
the Whitebox Prize for Best Financial Research 2012.
Leverage Aversion and Risk Parity, Cliff Asness, Andrea Frazzini, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2012), Financial Analysts Journal 68(1), 47-59.
A Risk Parity portfolio that over-weights safer asset classes outperforms the market. This across-asset-class evidence complements the within-asset-class evidence on Betting Against Beta.
Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price, Nicolae Garleanu and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2011), The
Review of Financial Studies 24(6), 1980-2022. Slides.
Data.
High margin requirements = high required returns. Explains the Fed’s lending programs, the CDS-bond basis, the failure of the covered interest-rate parity, and
more.
Michael Brennan Award
Winner for the Best Paper in the Review of Financial Studies.
Two Monetary Tools: Interest Rates and Haircuts, Adam Ashcraft, Nicolae Garleanu, and
Lasse H. Pedersen (2010), NBER Macroeconomics Annual 25, 143-180. Slides.
A macro model with
financial frictions: how central bank lending facilities can ease credit frictions – with strong empirical
evidence from the recent crisis.
How Sovereign is Sovereign Credit Risk?,
Francis A. Longstaff, Jun Pan, Lasse H. Pedersen,
and
Kenneth J. Singleton (2010), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 3(2), 75–103.
Sovereign CDS can be
explained by, and predicted by, U.S. equity, volatility, and bond market
risk premia.
Featured in
the Economic Times.
When Everyone Runs for the Exit, Lasse H. Pedersen (2009), The International Journal of Central Banking 5, 177-
199.
Understanding the global
liquidity crisis and the quant event. Evidence on the driving mechanisms. (A solicited commentary.)
Featured in The Economist, New York Times and Forbes.
Market Liquidity and Funding Liquidity, Markus Brunnermeier and Lasse H. Pedersen (2009), The Review of Financial
Studies 22, 2201-
2238.
Market liquidity and the
funding conditions are mutually reinforcing, giving rise to liquidity spirals, fragility, flight to quality, and
systemic risk.
Referenced in Nobel Prize Committee’s Scientific Background, 2013.
Demand-Based Option Pricing, Nicolae Garleanu, Lasse H. Pedersen,
and Allen Poteshman (2009), The Review of Financial Studies 22 (10), 4259-4299.
How end user demand
affects option pricing when dealers cannot perfectly hedge. New theory and unique data.
Geewax, Terker & Company First Prize,
2006.
Carry Trades and Currency Crashes, Markus Brunnermeier, Stefan Nagel, and Lasse Heje
Pedersen (2008), NBER Macroeconomics Annual 23, 313-348.
How the carry trade is
subject to crash risk during funding liquidity crises. Results help resolve the forward premium
puzzle.
Featured
in Forbes.
Slow Moving Capital, Mark Mitchell, Lasse Heje Pedersen,
and Todd Pulvino (2007), The American Economic Review 97, 215-220.
Empirical evidence: when
arbitrageurs lose capital and new capital arrives slowly, prices become depressed and later
rebound.
Liquidity and Risk Management, Nicolae Garleanu, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2007), The American Economic Review 97, 193-
197. Appendix.
Tighter risk management
can lead to illiquidity and lower prices. A multiplier effects arises when illiquidity tightens risk
management.
Valuation in Over-the-Counter Markets, Darrell Duffie, Nicolae Garleanu, and Lasse H. Pedersen
(2007), The Review of Financial Studies 20, 1865-1900.
The effect of search and
bargaining on asset prices and the dynamics of aggregate liquidity shocks.
Liquidity and Asset Prices, Yakov Amihud, Haim Mendelson, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2005), Foundations and Trends in Finance 1, 269-
364.
A survey of the
literature.
Asset Pricing with Liquidity Risk, Viral Acharya and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2005), Journal of Financial Economics 77, 375-410.
How unpredictable changes
in liquidity affect security returns; a liquidity-adjusted CAPM and empirical evidence.
Referenced in Nobel Prize Committee’s Scientific Background, 2013. Fama/DFA First Prize for best paper in the Journal
of Financial Economics, 2005.
NYSE Award for best paper
on equity trading, Western Finance Association, 2003.
Glucksman First-Place Award for best research paper in finance, NYU
Stern, 2002-
2003.
Predatory Trading, Markus K. Brunnermeier and Lasse Heje
Pedersen (2005), The Journal of Finance 60, 1825-1863.
When a large trader
liquidates, predators also sell, leading to price over-shooting and systemic risk.
Nominated for the Smith-
Breeden Prize for best paper in The Journal of Finance, 2005.
Barclays Global Investors
Award for the best conference paper at the European Finance Association, 2003.
Over-the-Counter Markets, Darrell
Duffie, Nicolae Garleanu, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2005), Econometrica 73, 1815-
1847.
I general search model for financial markets. Marketmakers' bid-ask spread is narrower for sophisticated investors
with better search options (NB:
reverse of information-based models).
Awarded the seventh Stephen A. Ross Prize. Referenced in Nobel
Prize Committee’s Scientific Background, 2010.
Adverse Selection and the Required Return, Nicolae Garleanu and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2004), The Review of Financial
Studies 17, 643-
665.
Bid-ask spreads due to
asymmetric information affect required returns differently than exogenous trading costs - paper shows explicitly
how.
Modeling Sovereign Yield Spreads: A Case Study of Russian Debt, Darrell Duffie, Lasse H. Pedersen, and Ken Singleton (2003), The Journal of
Finance 58, 119-159.
A model of credit risk
accounting for both default and restructuring. The study of Russian debt develops a new estimation
methodology.
Nominated for the Smith-
Breeden Prize for best paper in The Journal of Finance, 2003.
Securities Lending, Shorting, and Pricing,
Darrell Duffie,
Nicolae Garleanu, and Lasse Heje Pedersen (2002), Journal of
Financial Economics 66, 307-339.
Short sellers search for
stock owners and pay a lending fee. The lending fee increases the stock's price.
NYSE Award for best paper
on equity trading, Western Finance Association, 2002.
WORKING PAPERS
Is There a Replication Crisis in Finance? Theis Ingerslev Jensen, Bryan Kelly, and Lasse Heje Pedersen Coming soon. New factors and asset pricing tests. Symmetry ~= factor exposure; antisymmetry ~= alpha. PAP is the new BAB. New. More and more investors become passive - why? Will markets become more inefficient at the macro or micro levels? What is the best passive index? Get answers. Securities that embed
leverage alleviate leverage constraints and therefore have lower required returns. Evidence from options and leveraged ETFs.
Updated 2020. Featured in Barrons.
OLD WORKING PAPERS Corporate Bond
Specialness, Amrut Nashikkar and Lasse Heje Pedersen
(2007).
Shorting costs for corporate bonds.
The effect of market
structure on volume, prices, and welfare with applications to real-world auctions.
Density-Based
Inference in Affine Jump-Diffusions, Jun Liu, Jun Pan, and Lasse Heje Pedersen
(2000).
A closed-form
approximation to the density of affine jump diffusions with applications to finance.
POLICY PAPERS, OP-EDS, AND BLOGS
Aktiv kontra passiv forvaltning (in Danish), Ken L. Bechmann and Lasse H. Pedersen, Finans/Invest 3, 2017. A Tax on Systemic Risk, Viral Acharya, Lasse H. Pedersen, Thomas Philippon, and Matt Richardson (2010), in NBER publication on Quantifying Systemic Risk, ed. by Joseph Haubrich and Andrew Lo.
Taxing Systemic Risk, Viral Acharya, Lasse H. Pedersen, Thomas Philippon, and Matt Richardson (2010), in Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance, ed.
by Acharya, Cooley, Richardson, and Walter, Wiley, 2010, chap. 5. Reprinted in Handbook on Systemic Risk, ed. By Fouque and Langsam, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Regulating Systemic
Risk, Viral Acharya, Lasse Heje Pedersen, Thomas Philippon, and Matt
Richardson (2009), in Restoring Financial Stability: How
to Repair a Failed System, ed. by
Viral Acharya and Matt Richardson, Wiley, chap. 13, 283-304. Summary.
Hedge Funds in the
Aftermath of the Financial Crisis Stephen Brown, Marcin Kacperczyk,
Alexander Ljungqvist, Anthony Lynch, Lasse Heje Pedersen, and Matthew Richardson (2009),
in Restoring Financial
Stability: How to Repair a Failed System, ed. by Viral Acharya and Matt Richardson, Wiley, chap.
6, 157-178.Summary.
Saving free markets from market failure: institutions and liquidity are
crucial, Lasse Heje Pedersen,
Forbes, 9/29/2009.
Chinese
version, sina.com.cn: 佩德森：避免
自由市场失灵
A
proposal to prevent wholesale financial failure, Lasse H. Pedersen and Nouriel Roubini, Financial
Times,
1/30/2009.
Liquidity risk and
the current crisis, Lasse H. Pedersen, Stern on Finance
and VoxEU.
RESEARCH SUMMARIES AND MISC. Tips on How to Succeed in Academia for ph.d. students and junior faculty. Talk on academic impact (prepared for workshop for CBS management) Overview of frictional finance. pdf, ppt |