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Francesco
Franzoni Professor of Finance, USI Lugano Senior Chair, Swiss Finance Institute Research Fellow, CEPR Ph.D. in Economics, 2002, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology Email: francesco.franzoni@usi.ch Twitter: @FranzFranzoni Address: Via G. Buffi 13 6904, Lugano - Switzerland Tel.: +41 58 666 4117 Fax: +41 58 666 4734 |
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Teaching Material (Ph.d.) Published
Research Papers ·
Ben-David
I., Franzoni F., Moussawi R., Kim B. (2022), Competition for
Attention in the ETF Space, Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming. Virtual Finance
Seminar in Corporate Finance and Investments (on youtube) In the news: - Financial
Times, April 11, 2022, Thematic funds
triple share of global investments in a decade, by Steve
Johnson - ETF Stream, March
29, 2022, More timing than
trend? Thematic ETFs yet to prove critics wrong, by Tom Eckett - CityWire, March 18, 2022, Are thematic ETFs
stupid? by Alex Rosenberg - Financial
Times, March 03, 2022, Thematic ETFs tend to launch just before a steep fall in returns, by Emma Boyde - Rational
Reminder, January 27, 2022, Lighting your Money on Fire with Thematic
ETFs (episode 185, minute 25) - MarketWatch, May 04, 2021, Why you should worry about the flood of new cash into
U.S. stock funds, by Mark Hulbert - Alpha
Architect, May 03, 2021, Competition for attention in the ETF space, by Tommi Johnsen - Financial
Times, March 24, 2021, Thematic ETF assets
surge to new record buoyed by Ark funds, by Emma Boyde - Wall Street
Journal, February 5, 2021, New ETFs, Forced to Chase Trends, Shorten Their Own Lives, by Mark Hulbert - Reuters, January
27, 2021, Column: Bubble-wary
markets eye ETF crush in tech and crypto, by Mike
Dolan - Financial
Times, January 26, 2021, Thematic ETFs can deliver significant losses,
academics find, by Emma Boyde - Bloomberg, January
21, 2021, Day-Trader Frenzy
for Trendy Stocks Is Defying Decades of Losses, by Yakob Peterseil - Wall Street
Journal, January 15, 2021, The Story Behind the Market’s Hottest Funds, by Jason
Zweig ·
Di
Maggio M., Egan M., Franzoni F. (2021), The Value of
Intermediation in the Stock Market, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming. ·
Ben-David
I., Franzoni F., Moussawi R., Sedunov J. (2021), The Granular Nature
of Large Institutional Investors, Management Science,
67(11), 6629–6659, lead article. Harvard Law School
Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation Post Stigler Center
Pro-Market Blog Post ·
Cotelioglu E., Franzoni F. and Plazzi A.
(2021), What Constrains Liquidity
Provision? Evidence From Institutional Trades, Review of
Finance, 25(2), 485–517. ·
Barbon A., Di Maggio M., Franzoni F., Landier A.
(2019), Brokers and Order Flow
Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales, Journal of Finance,
74(6), 2703-2705, lead article. ·
Ben-David
I., Franzoni F., Moussawi R. (2019), A Note to “Do ETFs Increase Volatility?”: An
Improved Method to Predict Assignment of Stocks in to Russell Indexes,
Journal of Finance, Replications and Comments (web-only). ·
Franzoni
F., Giannetti M. (2019), Costs and Benefits
of Financial Conglomerate Affiliation: Evidence from Hedge Funds, Journal of Financial Economics,
134(2), 355-380. ·
Di Maggio M., Franzoni F., Kermani
A., Sommavilla C. (2019), The Relevance of
Broker Networks for Information Diffusion In the Stock Market,
Journal of Financial Economics, 134(2), 419-446. ·
Ben-David
I., Franzoni F., Moussawi R. (2018), Do ETFs Increase
Volatility? Journal of Finance, 73(6), 2471-2535, lead article. ·
Franzoni F. and
Schmalz M. (2017). Fund Flows and
Market States.
Review of Financial Studies, 30(8), 2621-2673. ·
Ben-David I., Franzoni F., Moussawi R. (2017). Exchange Traded
Funds (ETFs). Annual Review
of Financial Economics, 169-189. NBER
Working Paper No. 22829 ·
Ben-David I., Franzoni F., Landier
A., Moussawi R. (2013). Do hedge funds
manipulate stock prices? Journal of Finance, 68(6), 2383-2434. ·
Ben-David I., Franzoni F., Moussawi R. (2012). Hedge Fund Stock
Trading in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009.
Review of Financial Studies, 25(1), 1-54, lead article. ·
Franzoni
F., Nowak E., Phalippou L. (2012). Private
equity performance and liquidity risk,
Journal of Finance, December, 2341-2373. Internet Appendix ·
Franzoni F. (2009). Underinvestment vs.
Overinvestment: Evidence From Price Reactions To Pension Contributions.
Journal of Financial Economics, 92(3), June, 491-518. ·
Adrian
T., Franzoni F. (2009). Learning about beta: Time-varying factor loadings, expected returns,
and the conditional CAPM. Journal of
Empirical Finance, 16(4), September, 537-556. ·
Franzoni F., Marin J. (2006). Pension Plan
Funding and Stock Market Efficiency. Journal
of Finance, April, 921-956. ·
Franzoni F., Marin J. (2006). Portable Alphas
From Pension Mispricing. Journal of Portfolio Management,
Summer, 2006, 44-53. Working Papers ·
Franzoni
F., Obrycki D., Resendes R. (2022), The Wealth Creation
Effect in Stock Returns Abstract: In the asset pricing literature, higher investment is associated
with lower expected stock returns. On the other hand, practitioners view
investment as a value-creating activity when it generates payoffs above the
cost of capital. The paper reconciles these views. Starting from a discounted
cash-flow tautology, we argue that expected returns correlate positively with
expected investment whenever the return on equity is large enough. We label
this prediction the wealth creation effect. The empirical evidence supports
this channel. The interaction of profitability and investment positively
correlates with stock returns controlling for the usual characteristics. A
wealth creation factor earns a premium of about 24bps per month leading to
sizeable Sharpe ratio improvements relative to popular factor models. · Di Maggio M., Franzoni F., Kogan
S., Xing R. (2021), Avoiding
Volatility: Institutional Trading Before Scheduled News Abstract: The
paper studies institutional trading ahead of scheduled information releases,
notably earnings announcements. While scheduled news are known to be preceded
by sizeable stock returns, we find that institutional investors on average
forego part of these premia as they decrease their
exposure to the stocks involved in these events. This behavior appears to be
motivated by the avoidance of stock-level volatility and extreme downside
risk. Although the effect of a single stock holding on fund performance is
small, we identify a new friction that motivates institutional behavior.
Specifically, strongly negative earnings announcement returns for a single
portfolio holding lead to substantially larger outflows. Reducing the
exposure to the stock before the announcement mitigates these outflows. ·
Di Maggio M., Franzoni F., Massa M.,
Tubaldi R. (2020), Strategic Trading as a Response to Short Sellers Abstract: We study empirically whether short selling deters the
incorporation of positive information. We find a sizeable reduction of positive
information impounding before earnings announcements for stocks more exposed
to short selling. The price pressure of short sales cannot explain this
effect. Rather, consistent with strategic behavior, investors with positive
views slow down their trades when short sellers are also present.
Furthermore, they break up their buy trades across multiple brokers,
suggesting they wish to prevent their information from leaking. The findings
suggest that short selling can hinder price discovery when investors receive
different information signals. ·
Franzoni
F. (2008), The changing nature
of market risk Abstract: In the first three decades of CRSP
data, value stocks have higher betas than growth stocks. Later on, the
ranking is reversed and the gap in beta widens. What makes growth strategies
nowadays bear more market risk than value strategies? What are the causes of
the reversal in the ranking of betas? The paper argues that the negative link
between beta and BM is due to growth options. The shift of listed firms
towards more growth-oriented businesses has progressively changed the nature
of market risk. The ultimate determinant of this evolution is conjectured to
be financial market development, which has lowered the cost of capital. For
this reason, the facts described in this paper resonate with other long-run
phenomena, such as the rise in idiosyncratic risk and the R&D boom. ·
Franzoni
F. (2002), Where is beta
going? The riskiness of value and small stocks (cite as: Ph.d. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Abstract: This
paper finds that the market betas of value and small stocks have decreased by
about 75% in the second half of the twentieth century. The path of beta can
be closely tracked using variables that summarize the state of the economy.
On the basis of this analysis, the decline in beta can be related to a
long-term improvement in economic conditions that made these companies less
risky. Decomposing beta into the cash flow and expected return news
components confirms that the payoffs of these companies are less sensitive to
market conditions. This finding has implications for the debate on the CAPM
anomalies. Media clips Financial Times, April 11,
2022, Thematic funds triple
share of global investments in a decade, by Steve
Johnson ETF Stream, March 29, 2022, More timing than
trend? Thematic ETFs yet to prove critics wrong, by Tom Eckett CityWire, March
18, 2022, Are thematic ETFs
stupid? by Alex Rosenberg Financial Times, March 03,
2022, Thematic ETFs tend to launch just before a steep fall in returns, by Emma
Boyde Rational Reminder, January 27, 2022,
Lighting your Money on Fire with Thematic
ETFs (episode 185, minute 25) Finanz und Wirtschaft, November 24. 2021, Eine passive
Revolution mit Schönheitsfehlern (in German) MarketWatch, May 04,
2021, Why you should
worry about the flood of new cash into U.S. stock funds, by Mark
Hulbert Financial Times, March 24,
2021, Thematic ETF assets
surge to new record buoyed by Ark funds, by Emma Boyde Wall Street Journal,
February 5, 2021, New ETFs, Forced to
Chase Trends, Shorten Their Own Lives, by Mark
Hulbert Reuters, January 27, 2021, Column: Bubble-wary markets eye ETF crush in tech
and crypto, by Mike Dolan Financial Times, January 26,
2021, Thematic ETFs can
deliver significant losses, academics find, by Emma
Boyde Bloomberg, January 21, 2021,
Day-Trader Frenzy
for Trendy Stocks Is Defying Decades of Losses, by Yakob Peterseil Wall Street Journal, January
15, 2021, The Story Behind
the Market’s Hottest Funds, by Jason Zweig Seeking Alpha, August 27,
2020, The Impact Of
Concentration Of Assets At Institutional Fund Managers, by Larry Swedroe Le Temps, August 24, 2020, Big is not beautiful, by Jean
Keller (in French) Financial Times, August 8,
2020, Top 10 institutional investors fuel market
volatility, study finds, by Chris Flood Finnews.ch, October 2, 2019,
Some Investors Have
To Do The Heavy Lifting, by Claude Baumann Forbes, April 17, 2019, Concentration In The
Asset Management Industry: Implications For Corporate Engagement, by Bob
Eccles Finanz und Wirtschaft, Institutionelles Anlegen, October
27, 2018, Gefahren Im ETF-Markt, (English translation) Investir, August 15, 2018, L’impact des ETF
sur la volatilité des marches, by Fabio Lopes (in French) Wall Street Journal, July
19, 2018, ETFs Ruffle Markets, by Asjylyn Loder Finanz und
Wirtschaft, June 23, 2018, Wenn passive Anlagen Sorgen bereiten (in German) Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 21, 2018, ETF machen den Markt volatile, by Christof Leisinger (in German) Le Temps, June 20, 2018, Les ETF augmentent
l’instabilité des marchés, by Mathilde Farine (in French) CNBC, February 14, 2018, Insider trading is
still rampant on Wall Street, two new studies suggest, by
Thomas Franck The Economist, February 8,
2018, Insider trading has
been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude. Swiss National Radio (RSI
1), Modem, February 7, 2018, Discussing the
Market Drop of February 5, 2018 (in
Italian). Financial Times, February 5,
2018, ETF growth is in
danger of devouring capitalism, by Robin
Wigglesworth Bloomberg View, December 14,
2017, Broker
Leaks, by Matt Levin MarketWatch, November
17, 2017, Fears grow that
popularity of ETFs is a ticking time bomb, by Ryan Vlastelica Finanz und Wirtschaft, September 9, 2017, ETF führen zu stärkeren
Kursausschlägen, by Sandro Rosa Dealbreaker, July 11,
2017, In The Dog-Eat-Dog
World Of Asset Management, Prime Brokers Are Vultures, by Owen
Davis Wall Street Journal, MoneyBeat Blog, June 21, 2017, Are Activists Being
Sabotaged by Their Brokers?, by
Alexander Osipovich Institutional Investor, June
20, 2017, Brokers May Be
Giving Away Investors’ Best Ideas Bloomberg View, June 20,
2017, Bank Relationships
and Index Rules (scroll down to Leaky Brokers section), by Matt
Levine 6th
Swiss Asset Management Day, April 6, 2017, Panel Discussion on Private Markets, Active Management,
and Hedge Funds ETF.com,
December 28, 2016, ETFs A Double-Edged
Sword, by Larry Swedroe Alpha
Architect, December 8, 2016, A Really Cool Paper
(and Graphic) on ETFs, by Wesley R. Gray Financial
Times, November 17, 2016, Debate Intensifies
over ETFs’ Impact on Markets. Bloomberg
View, November 8, 2016, Broker Networks, by Matt
Levine Chief
Investment Officer, August 4, 2016, How Investment
Management Giants Cause Volatility, by Amy
White Financial
Times, February 1, 2015, Has the death knell
of active management been rung too soon?, by
Robert Pozen and Theresa Hamacher PBS Newshour, September 12, 2014, Why is Wall Street
becoming more bipolar? Alphaville (Financial Times), May 1,
2014, When ETFs make
things more volatile, by Izabella Kaminska Reuters,
April 30, 2014, A volatile love
affair with exchange funds and indexes, by Mike
Dolan IFR,
September 25, 2013, Investing when the
tide goes out, by James Saft Wall
Street Journal, December 6, 2012. Article citing the
“Do Hedge Funds Manipulate Stock Prices?” paper TheStreet.com,
August 2, 2012, ETF Arbitrage May
Be Driving Market Volatility Plus–Il Sole 24 Ore, February
18, 2012, Rischio arbitraggi fra prezzi e Nav, by Gianfranco Ursino WealthAdviser, February, 2012, ETFs, arbitrage and contagion: a potential
link?, Wall
Street Journal, The Intelligent Investor, December 24, 2011, Now That's Performance
Art, by Jason Zweig HandelsZeitung, December, 2011, Alphatiere Auf Abwegen Research
News at OSU, 25 August, 2011, Hedge Funds Sold Stocks Quickly
During Financial Crisis, Hurting Mutual Fund Investors, by Jeff Grabmeier Insider
Monkey, June, 2011, Do hedge funds
manipulate stock prices?, Il Mondo, June, 2011, Così l’Hedge gioca con i
prezzi, by
Fabio Sottocornola AllAboutAlpha.com,
March 2, 2011, Hedge
funds and “stock manipulation”: Perpetrators, accomplices or just in the
wrong place at the wrong time (again)?, Il Mondo, December, 2010, Mosse tattiche da Hedge, by Fabio Sottocornola AllAboutAlpha.com, August 30, 2010, Under the hood: Ground
breaking private equity study examines actual investments, not just funds,
AllaboutAlpha.com, AllAboutAlpha.com,
March 14, 2010, Study: Hedge funds’
role in 2008 market drawdown “questionable” CFA
digest, 2006, Pension Plan
Funding and Stock Market Efficiency, by Lester
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