This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike … other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used … clear evidence of a gender gap in annual performance with respect to both measures. Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours …

This paper focuses on the comparison of financial performance of the Czech voluntary private pension scheme with five … allocation. -- Private pension schemes ; Czech voluntary pension scheme ; financial performance ; Sharpe ratio …

The goal of this research is to describe the application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to the performance …. -- Quality adjusted DEA ; branch performance ; scale efficiency ; return to scale …

We examine the factors influencing published estimates of hedge fund performance. Using a sample of 1,019 intercept … characteristics and research design choices in the underlying studies. Estimates of current performance implied by best practice … management and performance fees charged by hedge funds. We also document how reported performance estimates vary with hedge fund …