Kosowski, Robert; Timmermann, Allan; Wermers, Russ; … - Institut für Finanzmarktforschung, Wirtschafts- und … - 2005
We apply a new bootstrap statistical technique to examine the performance of the U.S. openend, domestic-equity mutual fund industry over the 1975 to 2002 period. Specifically, we bootstrap the joint distribution of performance measures (\alphas) across all funds to determine whether managers of...