This study examines the effect of locally informed investors on market efficiency and stock prices using large power outages, which are exogenous events that constrain trading. Turnover in stocks headquartered in a outage area with 0.5% of U.S. electrical customers drops by 3-7% on the first...

We design a new test for diseconomies of scale at the mutual fund level, and document that quarterly changes in fund performance are negatively related to lagged predicted fund flows. The effect is economically and statistically significant for both inflows and outflows. Results hold for factor...

We investigate the returns to individuals who invested in residential real estate over 1999 – 2015. Using purchase and sales prices, we measure returns on properties that were both bought and sold by an investor by annualizing the property's price appreciation. We find that investors...

We examine the impact of house purchases by large buy-to-rent investors on the value of nearby properties. Returns on repeat sales of properties within a quarter mile of houses purchased by buy-to-rent investors were significantly greater if the repeat sale concluded after the buy-to-rent...