We analyse the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state-owned firms. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …

We analyze the performance persistence of Islamic and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) mutual funds. We adopt a … multi-stage strategy in which, in the first stage, partial frontiers’ approaches are considered to measure the performance … different investment strategies based on a recursive estimation methodology whose persistence performance is evaluated in the …