Im Unterschied zum deutschen Markt existieren in den USA Aktienfonds, dessen Anteile nicht über eine Fondsgesellschaft erworben und verkauft, sondern an der Börse gehandelt werden. Bei diesen so genannten „Closed-End Funds“ (CEFs) ist häufig zu beobachten, dass ihr Marktpreis nicht ihrem...

This paper provides new evidence supporting the rationality of closed-end fund discounts by analyzing the time-series dynamics of individual fund discounts and their relation to portfolio performance and manager turnover. We show that discount changes reflect rational investor learning about...

Based on the records of 1183 individual fund managers from 1985 to 2010, we investigate the compensation and discipline mechanisms in the closed-end fund industry and their implications for manager performance and fund premium. We find that managers generating high surplus, as proxied by fund...