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-advertising families. At the family level, flows have a convex relation with advertising expenditures, similar to that for performance … redemptions rather than increasing purchases of fund shares. We further find that advertising can affect the fund’s flow-performance …
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cases, trust-related active share delivers superior performance, whereas the economic magnitude is larger for cross …
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bookmaker data. We find that, after the head-coach has been replaced, teams perform better than before. However, the performance … replacement of head-coaches does not improve team performance. …
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to scale, we find evidence of industry-level decreasing returns: The positive turnover-performance relation weakens when …
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teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …
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available hedge fund databases. Tracking changes to statements of historical performance recorded at different points in time … performance histories significantly and predictably underperform those that have never revised, suggesting that unreliable …
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This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency’s performance management system and personnel … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …
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Using a tried and tested measure of management practices which has been shown to predict firm performance, we survey … incentives for staff recruitment, retention and promotion, are correlated with both teaching and research performance conditional … on resources and past performance. Moreover, this relationship holds for all universities, not just research …
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We investigate an informal yet important mechanism in the private equity industry that helps to reduce uncertainty: relationship building. Based on a large sample of private equity funds over the 1980-2010 period, we find that the general partners strategically allocate good funds to loyal...
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Using detailed data on currency transactions of institutional investors, this paper shows that funds that experience high returns on their currency holdings also execute currency trades at more favourable prices. This observation is consistent with foreign exchange dealers bidding for...
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