We collect compensation policy data from 60 Chinese mutual fund companies, which covers 88% of assets under management by all active stock and stock-oriented hybrid mutual funds in China. Using the collected data, we investigate the portfolio pumping from a performance-based perspective. We find...

This study empirically examines, in the setting of insurance companies, the hypothesis that investors facing more operating risk may behave as if they were more risk averse in investment decisions. Specifically, we study how operating risk from underwriting insurance policies affects insurers'...