Winners in the spotlight: Media coverage of fund holdings as a driver of flows

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 53-72

  Solomon, David H ^a   Soltes, Eugene ^b   Sosyura, Denis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital flows; Fund holdings; Media; Mutual funds; Return chasing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900462437     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2014.02.009     Document Type: Article

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