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Van Harlow

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Of tournaments and temptations: An analysis of managerial incentives in the mutual fund industry

KC Brown, WV Harlow, LT Starks - The Journal of Finance, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
We test the hypothesis that when their compensation is linked to relative performance,
managers of investment portfolios likely to end up as “losers” will manipulate fund risk differently …

Asset allocation in a downside-risk framework

WV Harlow - Financial analysts journal, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
… Extensions of this framework to asset pricing are discussed in WV Harlow and RKS Rao, "Asset
Pricing in a Generalized Mean-Lower Partial Moment Framework," Journal of Financial …

Risk aversion, uncertain information, and market efficiency

KC Brown, WV Harlow, SM Tinic - Journal of financial economics, 1988 - Elsevier
This paper develops and tests the uncertain information hypothesis as a means of explaining
the response of rational, risk-averse investors to the arrival of unanticipated information. …

Asset pricing in a generalized mean-lower partial moment framework: Theory and evidence

WV Harlow, RKS Rao - Journal of financial and quantitative analysis, 1989 - cambridge.org
A new asset pricing model that generalizes earlier results in the downside risk literature is
developed and empirically tested using a multivariate approach. By specifying risk as …

Market overreaction: Magnitude and intensity

KC Brown, WV Harlow - Journal of Portfolio Management, 1988 - search.proquest.com
The rationality of financial markets has been widely debated for a long time. In this study,
one particular type of irrational behavior--the tendency of investors to overreact to dramatic …

Understanding and assessing financial risk tolerance: a biological perspective

WV Harlow, KC Brown - Financial Analysts Journal, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
At some level, all asset allocation techniques require a consideration of variables involving
both capital market expectations and an individual's tolerance for risk. Although the latter …

The risk and required return of common stock following major price innovations

KC Brown, WV Harlow, SM Tinic - Journal of financial and …, 1993 - cambridge.org
This paper presents empirical evidence demonstrating that the risk and expected returns of
common stocks typically change in the aftermath of large price movements. When temporary …

Leveraged buyouts and insider nontrading

WV Harlow, JS Howe - Financial management, 1993 - JSTOR
This paper examines trading by corporate officers and directors ("insiders") in the 12 months
prior to management buyouts (MBOs) and third-party leveraged buyouts (LBOs). The …

Staying the course: The role of investment style consistency in the performance of mutual funds

KC Brown, WV Harlow, H Zhang - Available at SSRN 1364737, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
While a mutual fund's investment style influences the returns it generates, little is known about
how a manager's execution of the style decision affects portfolio performance. Using both …

[HTML][HTML] Abundances in 10 H II regions in the Small Magellanic Cloud

RJ Dufour, WV Harlow - Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 216 …, 1977 - adsabs.harvard.edu
A photoelectric study of selected emission lines in the spectral region from 3700 to 6800 A
is reported for 12 positions in 10 of the most prominent H II regions in the Small Magellanic …