The "self-made" man is a familiar figure in nineteenth-century American history. But the relentless expansion of market relations that facilitated such stories of commercial success also ensured that individual bankruptcy would become a prominent feature in the nation's economic landscape. In...

Das erste Paper behandelt den Survivorship Bias bei Aktienfonds. Dieser stellt eine systematische Überschätzung der Performance dar, die entsteht wenn in der Fondsgruppe nur die „Überlebenden“ berücksichtigt werden. Dies ist seit Grinblatt und Titman (1989) bekannt und seitdem in vielen...

We study whether fund families efficiently allocate their fund managers to differentmarket segments. Whether a fund manager can generate alpha simultaneouslydepends on her skills, and on the efficiency of the market segment in which she isemployed. We show that in the more efficient investment...