Dumb money: Mutual fund flows and the cross-section of stock returns

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 299-322

  Frazzini, Andrea ^a   Lamont, Owen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual investors; Mutual fund

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849083736     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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