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How Much Does Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Reuter, Jonathan - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138476
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Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers
Lim, Jongha - 2013
managers. Flows respond quickly and strongly to performance; lagged performance has a monotonically decreasing impact on flows … times as large as direct incentives from incentive fees and returns to managers' own investment in the fund. For new funds … generated for their investors in a given year, managers receive close to another dollar in direct performance fees plus the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084738
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The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an overview of what is known about the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135061
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Measuring Managerial Skill in the Mutual Fund Industry
Berk, Jonathan - 2012
document that investors recognize this skill and reward it by investing more capital with skilled managers. Higher skilled … managers are paid more and there is a strong positive correlation between current managerial compensation and future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104724
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The Dark Side of Outside Directors : Do They Quit When They are Most Needed?
Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2015
Outside directors have incentives to resign to protect their reputation or to avoid an increase in their workload when they anticipate that the firm on whose board they sit will perform poorly or disclose adverse news. We call these incentives the dark side of outside directors. We find strong...
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Matching Capital and Labor
Berk, Jonathan - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053836
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Understanding Corporate Governance Through Learning Models of Managerial Competence
Hermalin, Benjamin E. - 2014
A manager's shareholders, board of directors, and potential future employers are continually assessing his ability. A rich literature has documented that this insight has profound implications for corporate governance because assessment generates incentives (good and bad), introduces assorted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055514
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Scale and Skill in Active Management
Pastor, Lubos - 2014
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,...
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Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity
Cavagnaro, Daniel - 2016
Using a large sample of institutional investors' private equity investments in venture and buyout funds, we estimate the extent to which investors' skill affects returns from private equity investments. We first consider whether investors have differential skill by comparing the distribution of...
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Changes in Managerial Pay Structures 1986-1992 and Rising Returns to Skill
O'Shaughnessy, K. C.; Levine, David I.; Cappelli, Peter - 2021
We examine the relationship between wages and skill requirements in a sample of over 50,000 managers in 39 companies …
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