Unobserved actions of mutual funds

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2379-2416

  Kacperczyk, Marcin ^a   Sialm, Clemens ^b,d   Zheng, Lu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 57349196592     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhl041     Document Type: Article

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