TY - JOUR
T1 - Tournament behavior in Australian superannuation funds : a non-parametric analysis
AU - Hallahan, Terrence
AU - Faff, Robert
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Taylor's [Taylor, J. (2003). Risk-taking behavior in mutual fund tournaments, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation 50, 373-383] extension of the tournament model of Brown et al. [Brown, K. C., Harlow, W. V., Starks, L. T. (1996). Of tournaments and temptations: An analysis of managerial incentives in the mutual fund industry, Journal of Finance 15, 85-110] proposes that using an exogenous (endogenous) benchmark, will induce losing (winning) managers to gamble. This presents two competing testable hypotheses that are investigated in the current study. We use a sample period covering 1989 to 2001 of Australian multi-sector growth funds. We apply the non-parametric Cross-Product Ratio methodology. Generally, we find evidence in support of Taylor's model.
AB - Taylor's [Taylor, J. (2003). Risk-taking behavior in mutual fund tournaments, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation 50, 373-383] extension of the tournament model of Brown et al. [Brown, K. C., Harlow, W. V., Starks, L. T. (1996). Of tournaments and temptations: An analysis of managerial incentives in the mutual fund industry, Journal of Finance 15, 85-110] proposes that using an exogenous (endogenous) benchmark, will induce losing (winning) managers to gamble. This presents two competing testable hypotheses that are investigated in the current study. We use a sample period covering 1989 to 2001 of Australian multi-sector growth funds. We apply the non-parametric Cross-Product Ratio methodology. Generally, we find evidence in support of Taylor's model.
KW - Australia
KW - finance
KW - mutual funds
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:30467
U2 - 10.1016/j.gfj.2008.09.003
DO - 10.1016/j.gfj.2008.09.003
M3 - Article
SN - 1044-0283
VL - 19
SP - 307
EP - 322
JO - Global Finance Journal
JF - Global Finance Journal
IS - 3
ER -