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Investment Decisions Depend on Portfolio Disclosure

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A weekly database of retail money fund portfolio statistics is uneconomical for retail investors to observe, so it allows direct comparison of disclosed and undisclosed portfolios. This allows for a more direct and unambiguous test for “window dressing” than elsewhere in the literature. The analysis shows that funds allocating between government and private issues hold more in government issues around disclosures than at other times, consistent with the theory that intermediaries prefer to disclose safer portfolios.

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  • David K. Musto, 1997. "Investment Decisions Depend on Portfolio Disclosure," Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers 97-49, Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania.
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