Using minute-by-minute TV advertising data covering some 300 firms, 327,000 ads, and $20 billion in ad spending, we study the real-time effects of TV advertising on investors' searches for online financial information and subsequent trading activity. Our identification strategy exploits the fact...

Mark Bell’s article (2016) is a welcome contribution to the unavoidable task of evaluating a research program that exhibits the problems he identifies: the failure of most quantitative studies to offer strong explanations for proliferation patterns, and their inability to predict out-of-sample...

This dissertation studies the US real estate investment trust (REIT) market to empirically examine several conditions of the noise trader model (NTM) — a behavioral theory that purports to explain departures of listed property share prices from their net asset values (NAV spreads). First, we...

We study China's flagship option market, Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) 50 ETF option market, and the information content of trading volume using a proprietary dataset. We find that open buy put-call ratio, defined as put volume over the sum of put and call volumes, of financial institutional...