Managerial Incentives and Financial Contagion /

This paper proposes a framework for comovements of asset prices with seemingly unrelated fundamentals, as an outcome of optimal portfolio strategies by fund managers. In emerging markets, dedicated managers outperforming a benchmark index and global managers maximizing absolute returns lead to syste...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chakravorti, Sujit
Other Authors: Lall, Subir
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/199
Online Access:Full text available on IMF