Australian mutual fund performance appraisal using data envelopment analysis

Managerial Finance

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 60-73

  Galagedera, Don U A ^a   Silvapulle, Param ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian mutual funds; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848847047     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074350210768077     Document Type: Article

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