Why do investors entrust active mutual fund managers with large sums of money while receiving negative excess returns … on average? Our explanation is that investors have a coarser information set than fund managers which leads them to … systematically misinterpret managers' skill. When investors are unable to correctly quantify risk because they have no knowledge of …

Dieses Papier untersucht vier Themenbereiche: Erstens werden die Determinanten der Netto-Zuflüsse in Hedgefonds … untersucht. Zweitens betrachten wir die Anreize für das Management von Hedgefonds. Drittens untersuchen wir das Verhalten von …

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …