Survivorship bias and mutual fund performance: Relevance, significance, and methodical differences

Review of Finance

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 441-474

  Rohleder, Martin ^a   Scholz, Hendrik ^b   Wilkens, Marco ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 79957794521     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfq023     Document Type: Article

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