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Research

Main Interests: Behavioral Finance, Empirical Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Computational Economics.

 

Publications

Forthcoming

1.      Social Learning and Analyst Behavior (with Ville Rantala and Rosy Xu). Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming.

2.      Searching for Gambles: Investor Attention, Gambling Sentiment, and Stock Market Outcomes (with Yao Chen and Chendi Zhang). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming.

3.      Terrorist Attacks, Analyst Sentiment, and Earnings Forecasts (with Constantinos Antoniou, Carina Cuculiza, and Anastasios Maligkris). Management Science, Forthcoming.

4.      Local Bankruptcy and Geographic Contagion in Loan Characteristics (with Jawad Addoum, Nhan Le, and Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi). Review of Finance, Forthcoming.

2020

5.      Predicting Hedge Fund Performance When Fund Returns Are Skewed (with Andrea Heuson and Mark Hutchinson). Financial Management, 49 (4), 877-896.

6.      Big Fish in a Small Pond: Locally-Dominant Firms and the Business Cycle (with Sima Jannati and George Korniotis). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 180, 219-240.

7.      Investor Sophistication and Asset Prices (with George Korniotis and Jeremy Page). Review of Financial Economics, 38 (4), 557-579.

8.      Heterogeneous Beliefs and Return Volatility Around Seasoned Equity Offerings (SEOs) (with Ann Marie Hibbert, Qiang Kang, and Suchi Mishra). Journal of Financial Economics, 137 (2), 571-589.

9.      Prozac for Depressed States? Effect of Mood on Local Economic Recessions (with Vidhi Chhaochharia and George Korniotis). Review of Financial Economics, 38 (2), 245-274.

2019

10.  Under-reaction to Political Information and Price Momentum (with Jawad Addoum, Stefanos Delikouras, and Da Ke). Financial Management, 48 (3), 773-804. Second best paper award.

11.  An Analyst by Any Other Surname: Surname Favorability and Market Reaction to Analyst Forecasts (with Jay Jung, Sonya Lim, and Choong-Yuel Yoo). Journal of Accounting and Economics, 67 (2-3), 306-335.

12.  Income Hedging, Dynamic Style Preferences, and Return Predictability (with Jawad Addoum, Stefanos Delikouras, and George Korniotis). Journal of Finance, 74 (4), 2055-2106.

13.  Mood, Firm Behavior, and Aggregate Economic Outcomes (with Vidhi Chhaochharia, Dasol Kim, and George Korniotis). Journal of Financial Economics, 132 (2), 427-450.

14.  The Changing Landscape of Behavioral Finance (non-refereed review paper), Review of Financial Economics (Special Issue on Behavioral Finance), 37 (1), 3-5.

15.  Has Local Informational Advantage Disappeared? (with Gennaro Bernile, Johan Sulaeman, and Qin Wang). Review of Financial Economics (Special Issue on Behavioral Finance), 37 (1), 38-60. Second best paper award.

2017

16.  Stature, Obesity, and Portfolio Choice (with Jawad Addoum and George Korniotis). Management Science, 63 (10), 3393-3413.

17.  Network Analysis of Search Dynamics: {The Case of Stock Habitats (with Ashish Agarwal, Prabhudev Konana, and Alvin Leung). Management Science, 63 (8), 2667-2687.

18.  Political Climate, Optimism, and Investment Decisions (with Yosef Bonaparte and Jeremy Page). Journal of Financial Markets, 34, 69-94.

19.  Co-Search Attention and Stock Return Predictability in Supply-Chains (with Ashish Agarwal, Prabhudev Konana, and Alvin Leung). Information Systems Research, 28 (2), 265-288.

2016

20.  Political Sentiment and Predictable Returns (with Jawad Addoum). Review of Financial Studies, 29 (12), 3471-3518.

21.  Political Contributions and Analyst Behavior (with Danling Jiang and Kelvin Law). Review of Accounting Studies, 21 (1), 37-88.

22.  Analysts, Macroeconomic News, and the Benefit of In-House Economists (with Artur Hugon and An-Ping Lin). Accounting Review, 91 (2), 513-534.

23.  Gambling and Comovement (with Jeremy Page and Oliver Spalt). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 51 (1), 85-111.

2015

24.  Local Business Cycles and Local Liquidity (with Gennaro Bernile, George Korniotis, and Qin Wang). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 50 (5), 987-1010.

25.  Political Values, Culture, and Corporate Litigation (with Irena Hutton and Danling Jiang). Management Science, 61 (12), 2905-2925.

26.  What is in a Name? Mutual Fund Flows When Managers Have Foreign Sounding Names (with Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi and Oliver Spalt). Review of Financial Studies, 28 (8), 2281-2321.

27.  Home Away From Home: Economic Relevance and Local Investors (with Gennaro Bernile and Johan Sulaeman). Review of Financial Studies, 28 (7), 2009-2049.

28.  Weather-Induced Mood, Institutional Investors, and Stock Returns (with William N. Goetzmann, Dasol Kim, and Qin Wang). Review of Financial Studies, 28 (1), 73-111.

2014

29.  Corporate Policies of Republican Managers (with Irena Hutton and Danling Jiang). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 49 (5-6), 1279-1310.

30.  Deviations From Norms and Informed Trading (with Jeremy Page). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 49 (4), 1005-1037.

31.  Income Hedging and Portfolio Decisions (with Yosef Bonaparte and George Korniotis). Journal of Financial Economics, 113 (2), 300-324.

2013

32.  Information Acquisition and Confirmation Bias in Virtual Communities: Evidence from Stock Message Boards (with Bin Gu, Prabhudev Konana, JaeHong Park, and Raj Raghunathan). Information Systems Research, 24 (4), 1050-1067.

33.  State-Level Business Cycles and Local Return Predictability (with George Korniotis). Journal of Finance, 68 (3), 1037-1096.

34.  Investor Sentiment and Return Comovements: Evidence from Stock Splits and Headquarters Changes (with Jeremy Page and Oliver Spalt). Review of Finance, 17 (3), 921-953.

35.  Speculative Retail Trading and Asset Prices (with Bing Han). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 48 (2), 377-404.

36.  Political Activism, Information Costs, and Stock Market Participation (with Yosef Bonaparte). Journal of Financial Economics, 107 (3), 760-786.

37.  Do Portfolio Distortions Reflect Superior Information or Psychological Biases? (with George Korniotis). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 48 (1), 1-45. Lead Article.

2012

38.  Local Investors and Corporate Governance (with Vidhi Chhaochharia and Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi). Journal of Accounting and Economics, 54 (1), 42-67, 2012.

2011

39.  Religious Beliefs, Gambling Attitudes, and Financial Market Outcomes (with Jeremy Page and Oliver Spalt). Journal of Financial Economics, 102 (3), 671-708, 2011.

40.  Behavioral Biases of Mutual Fund Investors (with Warren Bailey and David Ng). Journal of Financial Economics, 102 (1), 1-27, 2011. Lead Article.

41.  Do Behavioral Biases Adversely Affect the Macro-Economy? (with George Korniotis), Review of Financial Studies, 24 (5), 1513-1559, 2011.

42.  Do Older Investors Make Better Investment Decisions? (with George Korniotis), Review of Economics and Statistics, 93 (1), 244-265, 2011.

2010

43.  Self-Selection and the Forecasting Abilities of Female Equity Analysts, Journal of Accounting Research, 48 (2), 393-435, 2010.

44.  Idiosyncratic Volatility Puzzle: Time Trend or Speculative Episodes? (with Alon Brav, Michael Brandt, and John Graham), Review of Financial Studies, 23 (2), 863-899, 2010.

2009

45.  Hard-To-Value Stocks, Behavioral Biases, and Informed Trading, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 44 (6), 1375-1401, 2009.

46.  Dynamic Style Preferences of Individual Investors and Stock Returns, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 44 (3), 607-640, 2009.

47.  Who Gambles in the Stock Market? Journal of Finance, 64 (4), 1889-1933, 2009. Top 25 cited articles in the Journal of Finance in the past 8 years (as of January 2018).

2008

48.  Equity Portfolio Diversification (with William Goetzmann), Review of Finance, 12 (3), 433-463, 2008. Lead Article. Most cited Review of Finance paper of all time (as of January 2018).

49.  How do Decision Frames Influence the Stock Investment Choices of Individual Investors? (with Sonya Lim), Management Science, 54 (6), 1052-1064, 2008.

50.  Foreign Investments of U.S. Individual Investors: {Causes and Consequences (with Warren Bailey and David T. Ng), Management Science, 54 (3), 443-459, 2008.

2007

51.  Do the Diversification Choices of Individual Investors Influence Stock Returns? Journal of Financial Markets, 10 (4), 362-390, 2007.

2006

52.  Retail Investor Sentiment and Return Comovements (with Charles Lee), Journal of Finance, 61 (5), 2451-2486, 2006.

53.  Do Dividend Clienteles Exist? Evidence on Dividend Preferences of Retail Investors (with John Graham), Journal of Finance, 61 (3), 1305-1336, 2006.

Pre-2006

54.  Variations on the Theme of Scarf's Counter-Example (with Martin Shubik), Computational Economics, 24 (1), 1-19, 2004. Lead Article.

55.  A Computational Analysis of Core Convergence in a Multiple Equilibria Economy (with Martin Shubik), Games and Economic Behavior, 42, 253-266, 2003.

56.  The Dow Theory: William Peter Hamilton's Track Record Re-Considered (with Stephen Brown and William Goetzmann), Journal of Finance, 53 (4), 1311-1333, 1998.

Book Chapter

57.  Cognitive Abilities and Financial Decisions (with George Korniotis), Behavioral Finance (edited by H. Kent Baker and John Nofsinger), Chapter 30, 559-576, John Wiley and Sons, 2010.

 

Working Papers

Revise and Resubmit

58.  Do Hedge Fund Managers Understand Politics? Political Sensitivity and Investment Skill (with Honghui Chen, Yan Lu, and Ajai Singh). Second round at Journal of Banking and Finance.

59.  Dividend Sentiment, Catering Incentives, and Return Predictability (with Zicheng Li and Chendi Zhang). Second round at Journal of Corporate Finance.

60.  Skewness Preference and Market Anomalies (with Mehrshad Motahari and Richard Taffler). Second round at Management Science.

Papers Under Initial Submission

61.  Firm-Level ESG News and Active Fund Management (with Linquan Chen, Yao Chen, and Woon Sau Leung). December 2020.

62.  Daily Winners and Losers (with Stefan Ruenzi and Michael Ungeheuer). December 2020.

63.  Income Risk, Ownership Dynamics, and Portfolio Decisions (with Yosef Bonaparte and George Korniotis). December 2020.

64.  Aggregating Artificially Intelligent Earnings Forecasts (with Vidhi Chhaochharia, Swathi Murali, and Ville Rantala). December 2020.

65.  Heuristic Fund Allocation Decisions (with Indraneel Chakraborty, Tobias Muhlhofer, and Ravi Sastry). November 2020.

Other Working Papers

66.  Climate Sensitivity and Analyst Behavior (with Carina Cuculiza, Wei Xin, and Chendi Zhang). September 2020.

67.  Only Gamble in Town: Stock Market Gambling Around the World and Market Efficiency (with Huong Ngyuen and Talis Putnis). September 2020.

68.  Minority Analysts, Diversity, and Market Behavior (with Paul Borochin and Vidhi Chhaochharia). September 2020.

69.  Dynamic ESG Preferences and Asset Prices (with Yao Chen and Chendi Zhang). July 2020.

70.  Hispanic Culture, Stock Preferences, and Asset Prices (with Jawad Addoum, Carina Cuculiza, and Stuart Webb). June 2020.

71.  Geography of Firms and Propagation of Local Economic Shocks (with Gennaro Bernile, Stefanos Delikouras, and George Korniotis). June 2020.

72.  Social Risk and Portfolio Choice (with William Bazley, Yosef Bonaparte, and George Korniotis). February 2020.

73.  Seeing is Believing: Tourism and Home Bias (with Carina Cuculiza, Constantinos Antoniou and Lizhengbo Yang). December 2019.

Work in Progress and Inactive Papers

74.  In-Group Bias in Financial Markets (with Sima Jannati, Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi, and Justin Wolfers). November 2019. AFA 2017.

75.  Climate Risk and Predictable Returns (with Carina Cuculiza, Wei Xin, and Chendi Zhang). September 2019.

76.  Geographic Diffusion of Accounting Information, Analyst Behavior, and Return Predictability (with Jawad Addoum and Kelvin Law). June 2020.

77.  Terrorist Attacks, Managerial Sentiment, and Corporate Policies (with Constantinos Antoniou and Anastasios Maligkris). July 2018.

78.  Why the Going-Concern Anomaly: Gambling in the Market? (with Asad Kausar and Richard Taffler). May 2017.

79.  Bankruptcy Sells Stocks. But Who's Buying (and Why)? (with Luis Coelho, Kose John, and Richard Taffler). May 2017.

80.  Lending to Sensation-Seeking Households (with Khrystyna Bochkay, Indraneel Chakraborty, and Roman Chychyla). April 2017.

81.  Short Selling Before Initial Public Offerings (with Linquan Chen and Chendi Zhang). March 2017.

82.  Geography, Diversity, and Accuracy of Crowdsourced Earnings Forecasts (with Biljana Adebambo and Barbara Bliss). August 2016.

83.  Contagious Negative Sentiment and Corporate Policies: Evidence from Local Bankruptcy Filings (with Jawad Addoum and Nhan Le). March 2016.

 

Other Research Papers and Publications

84.  Towards Understanding the Predictability of Stock Markets From the Perspective of Computational Complexity (with James Aspnes, David Fischer, Michael Fischer, and Ming Kao), Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, January 2001.

85.  An Algorithm for Syntactic Pattern Recognition using the Extended Kalman Filter Formulation (with Prateek Aggarwal), Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Man, Systems, and Cybernetics, October 1997.

86.  FEVA (Feature Vector Analysis): Explicitly Looking for Structure and Forecastability in Time Series Data (with Victor E. McGee), Economic and Financial Computing, Winter 1996.

87.  Intelligent Control of Autonomous Dynamic Systems Using a Constrained Optimal Control Approach (with Sunil K. Singh), Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 1993.

 

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