Performance measurement of hedge funds using data envelopment analysis

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 442-471

  Eling, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Hedge funds; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846529965     PISSN: 15554961     EISSN: 1555497X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11408-006-0032-4     Document Type: Article

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