• DOI:10.1016/J.JFINECO.2011.02.020
Corpus ID: 15596157

Hedge Fund Leverage

@article{Ang2011HedgeFL,
  title={Hedge Fund Leverage},
  author={Andrew Ang and Sergiy Gorovyy and Greg van Inwegen},
  journal={NBER Working Paper Series},
  year={2011}
}

• Andrew Ang, Sergiy Gorovyy, Greg van Inwegen
• Published 2011
• Business
• NBER Working Paper Series

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… Expand