User profiles for H. Mamaysky

Harry Mamaysky

Columbia Business School
Verified email at columbia.edu
Cited by 3838

Foundations of technical analysis: Computational algorithms, statistical inference, and empirical implementation

AW Lo, H Mamaysky, J Wang - The journal of finance, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… of 0.3 × h * , where h* minimizes CV(h). Admittedly, this is an ad hoc approach, and it
remains an important challenge for future research to develop a more rigorous procedure. …

Asset prices and trading volume under fixed transactions costs

AW Lo, H Mamaysky, J Wang - Journal of Political Economy, 2004 - journals.uchicago.edu
We propose a dynamic equilibrium model of asset prices and trading volume when agents
face fixed transactions costs. We show that even small fixed costs can give rise to large “no‐…

Estimating the dynamics of mutual fund alphas and betas

H Mamaysky, M Spiegel, H Zhang - The Review of Financial …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
This article develops a Kalman filter model to track dynamic mutual fund factor loadings. It
then uses the estimates to analyze whether managers with market-timing ability can be …

How news and its context drive risk and returns around the world

CW Calomiris, H Mamaysky - Journal of Financial Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
We develop a classification methodology for the context and content of news articles to
predict risk and return in stock markets in 51 developed and emerging economies. A …

Improved forecasting of mutual fund alphas and betas

H Mamaysky, M Spiegel, H Zhang - Review of Finance, 2007 - academic.oup.com
This paper proposes a simple back testing procedure that is shown to dramatically improve
a panel data model's ability to produce out of sample forecasts. Here the procedure is used …

Dynamic trading policies with price impact

H He, H Mamaysky - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2005 - Elsevier
… l and h to control X and M. As usual, we will only consider feedback controls with l and h being
… We want to show that the l ^ and h ^ corresponding to d X ^ defines the optimal solution to …

[PDF][PDF] Financial markets and news about the coronavirus

H Mamaysky - Covid Economics, 2020 - cepr.org
In times of great economic and market stress, asset prices often respond dramatically to news
about underlying economic or market conditions. This was true during the global financial …

[PDF][PDF] A theory of mutual funds: Optimal fund objectives and industry organization

H Mamaysky, M Spiegel - Yale School of Management working paper, 2002 - Citeseer
This paper presents a model in which investors cannot remain in the market to trade at all
times. As a result they have an incentive to set up trading firms or financial market …

Does unusual news forecast market stress?

P Glasserman, H Mamaysky - Journal of Financial and Quantitative …, 2019 - cambridge.org
… Glasserman and Mamaysky … The equilibrium effect of this, as shown in Glasserman and
Mamaysky, is to make prices more informationally efficient with regard to micro than macro …

Measuring the cost of regulation: A text-based approach

CW Calomiris, H Mamaysky, R Yang - 2020 - nber.org
We derive a measure of firm-level regulatory exposure from the text of corporate earnings
calls. We use this measure to study the effect of regulation on companies’ growth, leverage, …