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What drives the herding behavior of individual investors?

Merli, Maxime; Roger, Tristan - HAL - 2011

This article intends to provide answers concerning what drives individual investor herding behavior. Our empirical … focus on the motivations of individual herding behavior. We introduce an investor speciÖc measure of herding which allows us … investor-speciÖc characteristics. We also reveal the fact that individual herding behavior is strongly and negatively linked …

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What is the Performance of Incubators? The Point of View of Coached Entrepreneurs

Arlotto, Jacques; Sahut, Jean-Michel; Teulon, Frédéric - HAL - 2011

This article examines the performance of incubators because their economic model implies constantly finding external sources of financing. In order to evaluate the performance of incubators in France, we questioned 404 entrepreneurs in 80 incubators. The results show the social utility of...

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Hedge fund behavior: An ex-post analysis

Nguyen-Thi-Thanh, Huyen - HAL - 2004

This paper aims to analyze hedge fund index behavior over the 9-year period ranging from January 1994 to December 2002 with help of various statistical measures. The results indicate that hedge fund returns are not normally distributed and exhibit first order autocorrelation, a phenomenon known...

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On the Use of Data Envelopment Analysis in Hedge Fund Performance Appraisal

Nguyen-Thi-Thanh, Huyen - HAL - 2006

This paper aims to show that Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is an efficient tool to assist investors in multiple criteria decision-making tasks like assessing hedge fund performance. DEA has the merit of offering investors the possibility to consider simultaneously multiple evaluation criteria...

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