A tournament model of fund management

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 33, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1460-1483

  Acker, Daniella ^a   Duck, Nigel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fund management; Investment trusts; Mutual funds; Tournament

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845390323     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.00648.x     Document Type: Article

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