# kaal:claim:2150377-013

**Claim.** The hedge fund industry's concern with confidentiality and privacy is itself an obstacle to empirical research: it made obtaining a substantial effective sample size for this study difficult, independent of the survey design.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- surveys of hedge fund managers
- questions touching firm or client financial status

**Source quote.**

> Given the particular concern in the hedge fund industry regarding confidentiality and privacy, obtaining a substantial effective sample size for this study proved difficult.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Hedge Fund Manager Registration Under the Dodd-Frank Act* (2012), B. Sample Size and Sampling Constraints

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Hedge Fund Manager Registration Under the Dodd-Frank Act (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2150377

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**Failure mode.** industry-opacity-limits-sample-size  (family: sample-and-selection-bias)

**Topics.** empirical-evidence, research-methods, disclosure, law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** survey-methodology, sample-size, industry-opacity, confidentiality, empirical-legal-studies

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