Target Date Funds (TDFs) have become the default investment choice in retirement accounts for most households. Later-dated TDFs (e.g., further away from the present day) allocate a more significant percentage of each dollar invested into equities relative to fixed income. As the TDF moves closer...

Target Date Funds (TDFs) have become the default investment choice in retirement accounts for most households. Later-dated TDFs (e.g., further away from the present day) allocate a more significant percentage of each dollar invested into equities relative to fixed income. As the TDF moves closer...

This dissertation consists of two chapters. The first chapter shows that the measurement errors in betas for stocks induce corresponding measurement errors in alphas and a spurious negative covariance between the estimated betas and alphas across stocks. This negative covariance between the...

The well-documented negative relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and stock returns is puzzling if investors are risk-averse. However, under prospect theory, while investors are risk-averse in the domain of gains, they exhibit risk-seeking behavior in the domain of losses. Consistent...

We study the interrelation between the size and winner-loser effects in U.S. stock re-turns, including their response to extreme returns. We find that size effect and winner-loser effect are present in data up to 2017. These are related but separate effects. How-ever these effects are due to...