Despite the significant growth in the European fund industry in recent years, the performance of European equity mutual …-ante identification of superior performance among funds. Most of the alpha that these state variables help produce comes from their …

Short sellers are perceived as informed, sophisticated investors. Yet little is known about their actual performance …

This paper investigates the impact of stress testing results on bank's equity and CDS performance using a large sample …

underperform non-duality managers. This underperformance results from duality funds in the bottom performance quintile. This … suggests that duality managers can avoid being laid off despite their bad performance. Consistent with this lower risk of … investment styles which lead to more extreme performance outcomes. Only about one fifth of the nonduality managers invest as …

-holder control) have an economically and statistically significant impact on operating performance changes following mergers. We also … consummation of the merger. -- Mergers ; Corporate governance ; Operating performance … der industrieadjustierten operationellen Performance in der Zeit vor, während und nach Firmenzusammenschlüssen und …

with the beneficial effects of fitness on, e.g., cognitive functions, stress coping and job performance. For each of the …

, consistent with the positive impact of fitness on cognitive functions, performance and stress coping found in the literature …

We study the decisions and performance of managers who are also chair of the board (duality managers). We hypothesize … that duality managers take more risky decisions and deliver worse performance than non-duality managers due to reduced …, consequently, deliver extreme performance outcomes. Furthermore, their average underperformance is 2.5 percent. All effects are the …