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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2023, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (9): 22-34.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2022.0998

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Multistage Efficiency Considering Network Status of Funds and its Predictive Ability

Shuai LU1,2, Shou-wei LI1,2(), Jian-min HE1   

  1. 1.School of Economics and Management,Southeast University,Nanjing 211189,China
    2.Research and Development Center for System and Information Engineering,Southeast University,Nanjing 211189,China
  • Received:2022-05-07 Revised:2022-08-30 Online:2023-09-15 Published:2023-09-19
  • Contact: Shou-wei LI E-mail:lishouwei@seu.edu.cn

Abstract:

The traditional two-stage DEA method, which measures the operating efficiency of commercial banks, has gradually been used in related research on the performance evaluation of funds. However, compared with bank performance, mutual funds have a significant network status effect, that is, funds with higher status in social networks may perform better due to signal transmission effect. The key issue is that most of the research has ignored the fund network status factors, leading to errors in the evaluation. To fill this gap, complex network model is employed to build a common-holding network of funds and calculate the mixed network centrality of funds to portray their network status. Specifically, the mixed network centrality is composed of the average of degree centrality, betweenness centrality and eccentricity. Based on the mixed network centrality, the fund network status is introduced into the two-stage DEA model to construct a new multi-stage input-output framework considering the fund network status.Based on this model, the multi-stage efficiency considering the network status (NSE) of 2600 mutual funds in China from 2015-2020 is measured and tested the predictability of NSE for future fund performance. The results show that NSE has a significant positive impact on future abnormal return and ROA; NSE has a significant positive impact on future systemic risks and annualized volatility, while it has an insignificant effect on the maximum retracement. The conclusions keep unchanged after using the PSM method to relieve the problem of the sample selection. It is also found that the predictability of NSE for future performance presents significant heterogeneity in funds with different cash flow and investment concentrations. Last, robustness checks support the main conclusions. The financial data of mutual funds is from the Wind database in China. A new approach is provided to measure multi-stage efficiency by considering the fund network status that are significant for evaluating and predicting fund performance. It also calls for more empirical or theoretical studies to detect social connections of mutual funds and evaluate their real efficiency performance.

Key words: fund network status, network centrality, DEA method, predictive power, multistage efficiency measure

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