In this paper, we globally investigate market timing abilities of mutual fund managers from the three perspectives: market return, market-wide volatility and aggregate liquidity. We propose a new specification to study market timing. Instead of considering an average market exposure for mutual...

In this paper, we study the potential relationship between mutual fund size and performance in a general framework. We sequentially test for a linear and a quadratic relationship using several traditional performance measures as well as a new measure based on multi-factor models. We find...

In this paper, we globally investigate market timing abilities of mutual fund managers from the three following perspectives: market return, market-wide volatility and market aggregate liquidity. We propose a generalized specification to study market timing. Instead of considering an average...

This article gives a new light on the finance-growth nexus through the investigation of the role of institutional investors as providers of risk diversification in the process of economic growth. We make use of panel cointegration techniques to study the potential long-run relationship between...