Best-performing US mutual fund families from 1993 to 2008: Evidence from a novel two-stage DEA model for efficiency decomposition

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3302-3317

  Premachandra, I M ^a   Zhu, Joe ^b   Watson, John ^c   Galagedera, Don U A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis efficiency decomposition; Efficiency of mutual fund families; Operational management efficiency; Portfolio management efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866856558     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2012.07.018     Document Type: Article

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