Leaning for the Tape : Evidence of Gaming Behavior in Equity Mutual Funds
We present evidence that fund managers inflate quarter-end portfolio prices with last-minute purchases of stocks already held. The magnitude of price inflation ranges from 0.5 percent per year for large-cap funds to well over 2 percent for small-cap funds. We find that the cross section of inflation matches the cross section of incentives from the flow/performance relation, that a surge of trading in the quarter's last minutes coincides with a surge in equity prices, and that the inflation is greatest for the stocks held by funds with the most incentive to inflate, controlling for the stocks' size and performance
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[2012]
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Authors: | Carhart, Mark M. |
Other Persons: | Reed, Adam V. (contributor) ; Kaniel, Ron (contributor) ; Musto, David K. (contributor) |
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[2012]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Description of contents: | Abstract [papers.ssrn.com] |
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