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Journal of Finance Vol. 62 No. 2 2007

Managerial Ability, Compensation, and the Closed‐End Fund Discount

Jonathan B. Berk; Richard Stanton1

1 U.S. National Science Foundation

Abstract

This paper shows that the existence of managerial ability, combined with the labor contract prevalent in the industry, implies that the closed‐end fund discount should exhibit many of the primary features documented in the literature. We evaluate the model's ability to match the quantitative features of the data, and find that it does well, although there is some observed behavior that remains to be explained.

DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6261.2007.01216.x
Volume
62
Issue
2
Pages
529-556
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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