The performance of local versus foreign mutual fund managers

European Financial Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 702-720

  Otten, Rogér ^a   Bams, Dennis ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Home bias; Information asymmetry; Mutual funds; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547880382     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2007.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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