Investor Information Acquisition and Money Market Fund Risk Rebalancing during the 2011–2012 Eurozone Crisis*

We study investor redemptions and portfolio rebalancing decisions of prime money market mutual funds (MMFs) during the Eurozone crisis. We find that sophisticated investors selectively acquire information about MMFs' risk exposures to Europe, which leads managers to withdraw funding from inform...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gallagher, Emily A, Schmidt, Lawrence DW, Timmermann, Allan, Wermers, Russ
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135513.2