Pástor, Ľuboš; Stambaugh, Robert F.; Taylor, Lucian A. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 116 (2015) 1, pp. 23-45
We empirically analyze the nature of returns to scale in active mutual fund management. We find strong evidence of decreasing returns at the industry level. As the size of the active mutual fund industry increases, a fund׳s ability to outperform passive benchmarks declines. At the fund level,...
