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False discoveries in mutual fund performance: Measuring luck in estimated alphas

Barras, Laurent; Scaillet, Olivier; Wermers, Russ - 2009

alphas by luck alone. Our approach precisely separates funds into (1) unskilled, (2) zero-alpha, and (3) skilled funds, even …

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Good luck, bad luck, and ambiguity aversion

Pulford, Briony D.; Gill, Poonam - In: Judgment and Decision Making 9 (2014) 2, pp. 159-166

We report a series of experiments investigating the influence of feeling lucky or unlucky on people's choice of known-risk or ambiguous options using the traditional Ellsberg Urns decision-making task. We induced a state of feeling lucky or unlucky in subjects by using a rigged wheel-of-fortune...

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Wages, talents, and egalitarianism

Lister, Andrew - In: Erasmus journal for philosophy and economics : EJPE 11 (2018) 2, pp. 34-56

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Careers of PhD graduates : the role of chance events and how to manage them

Kindsiko, Eneli; Baruch, Yehuda - In: Journal of vocational behavior 112 (2019), pp. 122-140

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Gender differences and dynamics in competition : the role of luck

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 2, pp. 351-376

impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at stake is big enough. Responses to luck are more persistent and …

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Reward the lucky? : an experimental investigation of the impact of agency and luck on bonuses

Oliveira, Angela C. M. de; Smith, Alexander; Spraggon, John - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 62 (2017), pp. 87-97

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Faith based investing (FBI) fund performance : luck or skill?

Das, Praveen K.; Uma Rao, S. P. - In: International journal of financial research 7 (2016) 4, pp. 29-32

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Mutual fund performance : luck or skill?

Bhootra, Ajay; Drezner, Zvi; Schwarzer, Christopher J.; … - In: International journal of business 20 (2015) 1, pp. 52-63

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Luck and entrepreneurial success

Liechti, Diego; Loderer, Claudio; Peyer, Urs C. - 2014

How much of entrepreneurial performance is sheer luck compared to talent, experience, education, and hard work? We … define luck as unexpected performance and look for an answer in a large survey of entrepreneurs. Accordingly, luck ranks last … is unaffected by past performance and many personality traits, including self-attribution and illusion of control. Luck …

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Promotional games increase consumer conversion rates and spending

Hock, Stefan J.; Bagchi, Rajesh; Anderson, Thomas M. - In: Journal of consumer research : JCR ; an … 47 (2020) 1, pp. 79-99

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