We examine the high volume return premium across countries as a test of the investor recognition hypothesis. Our cross-country tests are consistent with the hypothesis in that we find the magnitude of the premium is associated with market characteristics that relate to the importance of a...

We examine the effects of mutual fund families' strategic decisions, particularly the advertising decision, on investor flows into the families. We find evidence that beyond performance a family's strategic decisions such as advertising, distribution channels, fund offerings and expense ratios,...

We find that advertising appears to have significant effects on investor flows at the industry, family and individual fund level. At the industry level, flows are higher in months with more advertising dollars spent, even for non-advertising families. At the family level, flows have a convex...

To study attention and learning effects in financial markets, we investigate the role of media coverage in investment decisions of mutual fund investors and the consequent effects on fund flows. Employing a database of nearly 10,000 news articles and controlling for endogeneity in media...

This paper considers the problem of prediction in a panel data regression model with spatial auto-correlation in the context of a simple demand equation for liquor. This is based on a panel of 43 states over the period 1965-1994. The spatial auto-correlation due to neighboring states and the...

This paper analyzes the general equilibrium implications of performance fees linking the compensation of fund managers to the return of the managed portfolio relative to that of a benchmark portfolio. We find that symmetric ("fulcrum") performance fees distort the allocation of managed...

In this paper, we study the consumption-portfolio problem of an investor who faces realized capital gain taxes in a two stock setting with short sales. The investor finances consumption and a time of death bequest by trading in a money market and two stocks that he can short sell subject to...

Compensation of mutual fund managers is paramount to understanding agency frictions in asset delegation. We collect a unique registry-based dataset on the compensation of Swedish mutual fund managers. We find a concave relationship between pay and revenue, in contrast to how investors compensate...