Eliminating look-ahead bias in evaluating persistence in mutual fund performance

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 345-373

  Ter Horst, Jenke R ^a   Nijman, Theo E ^a   Verbeek, Marno ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

C34; G11; G23; Look ahead bias; Mutual funds; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042908689     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5398(01)00032-9     Document Type: Article

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