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This paper examines the labor market for mutual fund managers and managers' responses to the implicit incentives … the hypothesis that fund companies are learning about managers' abilities, managerial turnover is more performance …-sensitive for younger fund managers. Interpreting the separation-performance relationship as an incentive scheme, several of our …
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Hurricane Katrina did massive damage because New Orleans and the Gulf Coast were not appropriately protected. Wherever natural disasters threaten, the government -- in its traditional role as public goods provider -- must decide what level of protection to provide to an area. It does so by...
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30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst … its mutual fund managers. We find no evidence of a similar effect when a firm hires managers from another firm. We …
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We document several facts about workforce transitions from the informal to the formal sector in Vietnam, a fast growing, industrializing, and low-income country. First, younger workers, particularly migrants, are more likely to work in the formal sector and stay there permanently. Second, the...
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We track firms at birth and compare the growth pattern of IPO firms and their birth-matched counterparts. Firms that are larger at birth with faster initial growth are more likely to attain a larger size later in life and go public. Firms in the top percentile of predicted propensity to go...
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While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …
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Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners … rather than operational changes. Overall, we find little evidence that privatization alone increases airport performance …; instead, infrastructure funds improve performance both in privatization and subsequent acquisitions from non-PE private firms …
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The level of diseconomies of scale in asset management has important implications for tests of manager skill and the expected level of performance persistence. To identify the causal impact of fund size on future returns, we exploit the fact that small differences in returns can cause discrete...
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We propose a model where investors hire fund managers to invest either in risky bonds or in riskless assets. Some … managers have superior information on the default probability. Looking at the past performance, investors update beliefs on … their managers and make firing decisions. This leads to career concerns which affect investment decisions, generating a …
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mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger … managers gaining an informational advantage through the education networks. Our results suggest that social networks may be an …
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