This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …

problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …

evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of … information and fewer assumptions than traditional techniques such as Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis …

Economists usually think that rational voters have little incentives to acquire costly information. We present a … information if media technology is available because then they do not condition their informational decisions on being pivotal …-ride. Further, we show how the quality of information depends on the size of the electorate, the prior knowledge of voters and on …

No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

measures of workers’ productivity and trustworthiness and make this information available to potential employers. Our data show …

with various empirical findings, is the assumption that information about output decisions flows more freely within a …