On mutual fund terminations, survivorship bias, and the smart money effect

My dissertation consists of three chapters covering mutual fund terminations, survivorship bias, and smart money effect, respectively. The first chapter examines domestic equity fund terminations through the determinants of the hazard function. It finds that the lagged 3-month return, the standard d...

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Main Author: Bu, Qiang
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2006
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3216943