Losers for 1986

Inheriting Losers

We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates than stocks in any other momentum decile, even after adjusting for concurrent trades in these stocks by continuing fund managers. This behavior is observed regardless of fund characteristics and is stronger when new managers are external hires. The tendency of continuing fund manage...

Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort reform are small for infants in...

Salt-losers and non salt-losers in congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

Learning from losers

Bacteria can overcome environmental challenges by killing nearby bacteria and incorporating their DNA.

1986 , Volume , Issue Apr-1986