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We study a differentiated product market in which an investor initially owns a controlling stake in one of two competing firms and may acquire a non-controlling or a controlling stake in a competitor, either directly using her own assets, or indirectly via the controlled firm. While industry...
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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...
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We theoretically show that there is a fundamental disconnect between the disposition effect, i.e., investors’ tendency to sell winning assets too early and losing assets too late, and its common empirical measure, namely a positive difference between the proportion of gains and losses...
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This paper explores whether social preferences influence portfolio choices of retail investors. We use administrative investor trading records which we link to decisions of the same investors in experiments with real money at stake. We show that social preferences rather than return expectations...
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Actively managed Swedish equity mutual funds outperform the market in 1993-2001 but have negative gross and net excess returns of -0.18 and -1.47 per cent per year in 2002-2013. Across funds, there is no correlation between activism and return in the later period. Returns show little or no...
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benefits of diversification which causes a higher investment by the controlling shareholder in his asset and a lower investment …
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Start-up entrepreneurs are often commercially inexperienced. In giving managerial advice, venture capitalists can importantly enhance the success of innovative but highly risky ventures. The supply of experienced venture capitalists is not easily increased, however. When the rate of business...
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We document the empirical fact that asset prices in the consumption-goods and investment-goods sector behave almost …
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-verifiable managerial effort enhances taxable profits. We show that investment changes following a rise in dividend taxes might not be … investment response, in contrast to insights from previous literature. We provide a testable implication to infer the mode of … investment finance from investment responses. Furthermore, we show that imposing income tax on managerial incentive pay is …
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business income to tax authorities, we show that a fall in the tax rate may increase investment in risky entrepreneurial … business equity at the intensive margin, but decrease entrepreneurial investment at the extensive margin. To test these … due to tax avoidance or evasion, but increase investment in private businesses that are also worthwhile in the absence of …
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