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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The quality-assuring role of mutual fund advisory fees
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Michel Habib
  • D Bruce Johnsen
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title International Review of Law and Economics
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0144-8188
Volume 46
Page Range 1 - 19
Date 2016
Abstract Text Active fund managers implicitly promise to research profitable portfolio selection. But active management is an experience good subject to moral hazard. Investors cannot tell high from low quality up front and therefore fear manager shirking. We show how the parties mitigate the moral hazard by paying the manager a premium fee sufficiently high that the manager's one-time gain from shirking is less than the capitalized value of the premium stream he earns from maintaining his promise to provide high quality. Premium advisory fees act as a quality-assuring bond. Our model has a number of revealing extensions and comparative statics.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/j.irle.2015.11.003
Other Identification Number merlin-id:19636
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