Background risk and university endowment funds

This paper tests the effect of background risk on university endowment portfolios, where background risk is defined as the volatility of universities' nonfinancial income. The results show that higher background risk is associated with lower portfolio standard deviations. Universities with high...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dimmock, Stephen G.
Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98110
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12203

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