Common approaches to test for the economic value of directional forecasts are based on the classical Chi-square test for independence, Fisher’s exact test or the Pesaran and Timmerman (1992) test for market timing. These tests are asymptotically valid for serially independent observations....

Common approaches to testing the economic value of directional forecasts are based on the classical χ2-test for independence, Fisher’s exact test or the Pesaran and Timmermann test for market timing. These tests are asymptotically valid for serially independent observations, but in the...

La participación ciudadana en las labores de gobierno de los regímenes democráticos ha sido objeto de constante preocupación. Los autores de este trabajo analizan cómo afecta el nivel de estudios a la opinión pública española en relación a la influencia de los ciudadanos sobre las...

Recent evidence suggests that future performance is predictable from past performance, that is, funds with superior (inferior) performance in the past are likely to remain good (bad) performers in the future. This research addresses the persistence of mutual fund performance in a European...

The relevance of a fund manager's educational and experience profile to the size of investment portfolio return has been the subject of recurrent research in the last decade. While previous research considered an external reference point of view analysing industry-wide aggregated data, little...

General conceptions of quality management in education are discussed. It is shown that to make decisions of quality control more reliable and objective quantitative evaluation approaches should be used. The approach should be consisting of two stages: 1. elaboration of unitary scaling systems...

The aim of this study is to analyze the existing of the relationship between the performance and the increase of the patrimony of the Brazilian Equity Investment Funds. We used data from 459 funds, 321 of these from the IBOVESPA and 138 from the IBX, from 1997 to 2006, whose behavior has been...

How important are the experience, the education and the incentives to fund managers? Do they rely more on financial information from the markets and financial statements or do they take a more personal subjective approach. Is the number of clients correlated with the satisfaction of incentives...

How important are the experience, the education and the incentives to fund managers? Do they rely more on financial information from the markets and financial statements or do they take a more personal subjective approach. Is the number of clients correlated with the satisfaction of incentives...