Die 3. Auflage des Lehrbuchs zur Performanceanalyse von Investmentportfolios stellt eine völlig überarbeitete und wesentlich erweiterte Fassung der erfolgreichen Vorauflagen dar. Am allgemeinen Konzept, grundlegende Anwendungen in der Praxis durch detaillierte Beispiele zu veranschaulichen,...

This study investigates the impact of active investment management on the efficiency of public security markets. The scholarly literature indicates that active management contributes to market efficiency, thereby providing positive externalities for all investors, including investors in...

We examine how global institutional funds respond to news-based economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in the investment destination and home country. We document a number of novel findings. First, on an average there exists a negative flow-EPU relationship for global funds. Second, we document a...

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...