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Hendrik Bessembinder

Professor of Finance
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Cited by 14786

Do stocks outperform treasury bills?

H Bessembinder - Journal of financial economics, 2018 - Elsevier
The majority of common stocks that have appeared in the Center for Research in Security
Prices (CRSP) database since 1926 have lifetime buy-and-hold returns less than one-month …

Price volatility, trading volume, and market depth: Evidence from futures markets

H Bessembinder, PJ Seguin - Journal of financial and Quantitative …, 1993 - cambridge.org
The relations between volume, volatility, and market depth in eight physical and financial
futures markets are examined. Evidence suggests that linking volatility to total volume does not …

Equilibrium pricing and optimal hedging in electricity forward markets

H Bessembinder, ML Lemmon - the Journal of Finance, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Spot power prices are volatile and since electricity cannot be economically stored, familiar
arbitrage‐based methods are not applicable for pricing power derivative contracts. This paper …

Systematic risk, hedging pressure, and risk premiums in futures markets

H Bessembinder - The Review of Financial Studies, 1992 - academic.oup.com
I examine the uniformity of risk pricing in futures and asset markets. Tests against a general
alternative do not reject complete integration of futures and asset markets. As predicted, …

Trade execution costs and market quality after decimalization

H Bessembinder - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2003 - cambridge.org
This study assesses trade execution costs and market quality for NYSE and Nasdaq stocks
before and after the 2001 change to decimal pricing. Several theoretical predictions are …

Mean reversion in equilibrium asset prices: Evidence from the futures term structure

H Bessembinder, JF Coughenour… - The Journal of …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
We use the term structure of futures prices to test whether investors anticipate mean reversion
in spot asset prices. The empirical results indicate mean reversion in each market we …

Futures‐trading activity and stock price volatility

H Bessembinder, PJ Seguin - the Journal of Finance, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
We examine whether greater futures‐trading activity (volume and open interest) is associated
with greater equity volatility. We partition each trading activity series into expected and …

Measuring abnormal bond performance

H Bessembinder, KM Kahle… - The Review of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
We analyze the empirical power and specification of test statistics designed to detect abnormal
bond returns in corporate event studies, using monthly and daily data. We find that test …

Market transparency, liquidity externalities, and institutional trading costs in corporate bonds

H Bessembinder, W Maxwell… - Journal of Financial …, 2006 - Elsevier
We develop a simple model of the effect of public transaction reporting on trade execution
costs and test it using a sample of institutional trades in corporate bonds, before and after …

Forward contracts and firm value: Investment incentive and contracting effects

H Bessembinder - Journal of Financial and quantitative Analysis, 1991 - cambridge.org
Corporate risk hedging with forward contracts increases value by reducing incentives to
underinvest. This occurs because the hedge decreases the sensitivity of senior claim value to …