Hedge Fund Regulation and Misreported Returns

European Financial Management

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 829-857

  Cumming, Douglas ^a   Dai, Na ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

G23; G24; G28; hedge funds; K22; law and finance; M43; misreported returns; regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958552173     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2010.00576.x     Document Type: Article

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