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Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers
Lim, Jongha - 2013
managers. Flows respond quickly and strongly to performance; lagged performance has a monotonically decreasing impact on flows … times as large as direct incentives from incentive fees and returns to managers' own investment in the fund. For new funds … generated for their investors in a given year, managers receive close to another dollar in direct performance fees plus the …
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Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity
Cavagnaro, Daniel R. - 2016
Using a large sample of institutional investors' private equity investments in venture and buyout funds, we estimate the extent to which investors' skill affects returns from private equity investments. We first consider whether investors have differential skill by comparing the distribution of...
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Understanding Corporate Governance Through Learning Models of Managerial Competence
Hermalin, Benjamin E. - 2014
A manager's shareholders, board of directors, and potential future employers are continually assessing his ability. A rich literature has documented that this insight has profound implications for corporate governance because assessment generates incentives (good and bad), introduces assorted...
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Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility
Pan, Yihui - 2013
When there is uncertainty about a CEO's quality, news about the firm causes rational investors to update their expectation of the firm's profitability for two reasons: Updates occur because of the direct effect of the news, and also because the news can cause an updated assessment of the CEO's...
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Why are Buyouts Levered : The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds
Axelson, Ulf - 2007
This paper presents a model of the financial structure of private equity firms. In the model, the general partner of the firm encounters a sequence of deals over time where the exact quality of each deal cannot be credibly communicated to investors. We show that the optimal financing arrangement...
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Feedback and the success of irrational investors
Hirshleifer, David (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Feedback and the success of irrational investors
Hirshleifer, David (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001685875
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Feedback and the success of irrational investors
Hirshleifer, David (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001905356
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Explaining the Cross-Section of Stock Returns in Japan : Factors or Characteristics?
Daniel, Kent - 1999
Japanese stock returns are even more closely related to their book-to-market ratios than are their U.S. counterparts, and thus provide a good setting for testing whether the return premia associated with these characteristics arise because the characteristics are proxies for covariance with...
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Profitability of Momentum Strategies : An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations
Jegadeesh, Narasimhan - 1999
This paper evaluates various explanations for the profitability of momentum strategies documented in Jegadeesh and Titman (1993). The evidence indicates that momentum profits have continued in the 1990's suggesting that the original results were not a product of data snooping bias. The paper...
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