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Review of Financial Studies Vol. 20 No. 5 2007

Portfolio Performance Manipulation and Manipulation-proof Performance Measures

William Goetzmann1; Jonathan Ingersoll1; Matthew Spiegel1; Ivo Welch2

1 Yale University · 2 Brown University

Abstract

Over the years numerous portfolio performance measures have been proposed. In general they are designed to capture some particular enhancement that might result from active management. However, if a principal uses a measure to judge an agent, then the agent has an incentive to game the measure. Our paper sh

DOI
10.1093/rfs/hhm025
Volume
20
Issue
5
Pages
1503-1546
Language
en
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