Do Mutual Funds Have Decreasing Returns to Scale? Evidence from Fund Mergers
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0022-1090,1756-6916
DOI: 10.1017/s0022109018001023