Fund liquidation, self-selection, and look-ahead bias in the hedge fund industry

Review of Finance

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 605-632

  Horst, Jenke Ter ^a   Verbeek, Marno ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 44649194608     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfm012     Document Type: Article

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