Do Fund Managers Misestimate Climatic Disaster Risk
Alok, S and Kumar, N and Wermers, Russ (2020) Do Fund Managers Misestimate Climatic Disaster Risk. The Review of Financial Studies, 33 (3). pp. 1146-1183. ISSN 1465-7368
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We examine whether professional money managers overreact to large climatic disasters. We find that managers within a major disaster region underweight disaster zone stocks to a much greater degree than distant managers and that this aversion to disaster zone stocks is related to a salience bias that decreases over time and distance from the disaster, rather than to superior information possessed by close managers. This overreaction can be costly to fund investors for some especially salient disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes: a long-short strategy that exploits the overreaction generates a significant DGTW-adjusted return over the following 2 years.
| Affiliation: | Indian School of Business |
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| ISB Creiators: |
ISB Creators ORCiD Alok, S UNSPECIFIED Kumar, N UNSPECIFIED |
| Item Type: | Article |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Fund Management, Climatic Disaster, Risk Management, Climatic Disaster Risk, Money Managers, Hurricanes |
| Depositing User: | Mohan Dass |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2020 04:15 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Apr 2020 04:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.exchange.isb.edu/id/eprint/1362 |
| Publisher URL: | https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhz143 |
| Publisher OA policy: | http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0893-9454/ |
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