The Effect of the Business Cycle on the Performance of Socially Responsible Equity Mutual Funds

The current study applies a two-state switching regression model to examine the behavior of a hypothetical portfolio of ten socially responsible (SRI) equity mutual funds during the expansion and contraction phases of US business cycles between April 1991 and June 2009, based on the Carhart four-fac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roofe Sattlethight, Andrea
Format: Others
Published: FIU Digital Commons 2011
Subjects:
SRI
Online Access:http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/525
http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1632&context=etd