… Haslem, Ph.D., is a.mstant dean and associate professor of finance at the College i>f Business
and Management, University of Maryland. He is a member of the American Finance Association …

The balancing of risk and return represents the classic investor dilemma. In theory, an investor
seeks to maximize overall rate of return consistent with a desirable risk level. In practice, …

After the banks in each district were categorized by size (total deposits), they were ranked by
profitability and divided into quartiles according to relative profitability (profitability quarters). …

… As described in Baker and Haslem [3], the data were collected using a questionnaire consisting
of (1) an investor survey including 34 decision variables measured on a Likert-type scale …

THIS PAPER REPORTS the results of a study of decision variables used by individual investors
in analyzing common stock. Consistent with the nature of some of the major criticisms of …

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to analyze the 1987 and 1992 input/output
efficiency of US banks operating internationally. In 1987, banks belatedly began to acknowledge …

… Haslem, College of Business and Management, University of Maryland, and Virginia R. Gibson,
… See HK Baker and JA Haslem, "Information Needs of Individual Investors," Journal of Ac…

We investigate the relation between the performance and characteristics of 1,779 domestic,
actively managed retail equity mutual funds with diverse expense ratios. We show that using …

… their knowledge, and to Jane Haslem and our three families and seven grandchildren. …
even passively managed funds have a range of expenses (Haslem, Baker, and Smith, 2006). …

… The Sharpe index is the single DEA output variable, and is the most widely used and accepted
combined measure of risk-return performance (Haslem [2003]). The Sharpe index reflects …