Tournament behavior in Australian superannuation funds: A non-parametric analysis

Terrence Hallahan and Robert Faff

Global Finance Journal, 2009, vol. 19, issue 3, 307-322

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Tournaments; Mutual; funds; Risk; taking; Incentives; Non-parametric; analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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