Mutual funds and bubbles: The surprising role of contractual incentives

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-99

  Dass, Nishant ^a   Massa, Massimo ^a   Patgiri, Rajdeep ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

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EID: 67849110740     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhm033     Document Type: Article

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