outcome of a fairly recent trend in database marketing, namely the emergence of co-operative databases … using co-operative databases. We illustrate this framework in context of the optimal selection of customers for direct mail …

aggregate database than from some of the individual commercial databases. Although hedge funds deliver performance persistence …This paper proposes a novel database merging approach and re-examines the fundamental questions regarding hedge fund … performance. Before drawing conclusions about fund performance, we form an aggregate database by exploiting all available …

aggregate database than from some of the individual commercial databases. Although hedge funds deliver performance persistence …This paper proposes a novel database merging approach and re-examines the fundamental questions regarding hedge fund … performance. Before drawing conclusions about fund performance, we form an aggregate database by exploiting all available …

This paper formally analyzes the biases related to self-reporting in hedge fund databases by matching the quarterly … equity holdings of a complete list of 13F-filing hedge fund companies to the union of five major commercial databases of self …