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 …

We derive equilibrium asset prices when fund managers deviate from benchmark indices to exploit noise-trader induced … distortions but fund investors constrain these deviations. Because constraints force managers to buy assets that they underweight …. Noise traders bias prices upward because constraints make it harder for managers to underweight overvalued assets, which …

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 …

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 …

We study the relation between mutual fund managers' family backgrounds and their professional performance. Using hand …-collected data from individual Census records on the wealth and income of managers' parents, we find that managers from poor families … deliver higher alphas than managers from rich families. This result is robust to alternative measures of fund performance …

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 …

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 …