Do Hot Hands Exist Among Hedge Fund Managers? An Empirical Evaluation

We would like to thank Vikas Agarwal, Dmitri Alexeev, Torben Andersen, Duke Bristow, Art Bushonville, Bhagwan Chowdhry, Randolph Cohen, Kent Daniel, Harry DeAngelo, Dobrislav Dobrev, Shingo Goto, David Hsieh, Ken Judd, Robert Korajczyk, Ken Kroner, Ananth Madhavan, Rosa Matzkin, Narayan Naik, Todd Pulvino, Bryan Routledge, Che-Lin Su, Melvyn Teo, Sergey Tsyplakov, Motohiro Yogo, participants of the 2006 NBER Asset Pricing Program Meeting, 2006 Western Finance Association Meeting, 2007 American Finance Association Meeting, 2007 Advances in Theory Based Estimation: a Conference in Honor of Lars Hansen and Ken Singleton, and seminar participants at Barclays Global Investors, China Europe International Business School, East Carolina University, Georgia State University, Indian School of Business, National University of Singapore, Northwestern University, Singapore Management University, University of Arkansas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of South Carolina, University of Southern California, York University for their helpful discussions and suggestions. We are grateful to HFR Asset Management for providing us with the data. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• February 1, 2006
• July 19, 2007