In this study, we employ a statistical arbitrage approach to demonstrate that momentum investment strategy tend to work better in periods longer than six months, a result different from findings in past literature. Compared with standard parametric tests, the statistical arbitrage method...

We directly compare retail investor execution costs with exchange execution costs. We find off-exchange retail trades execute at lower effective spreads than comparable exchange trades, primarily due to the uninformed nature of retail trades. These results hold when payment for order flow (PFOF)...

This paper analyzes dynamic oligopoly models where investment is the principal strategic variable of interest, there are a large number of investment choices, and there are privately observed shocks to the marginal cost of investment. We show that simulation methods to compute these models can...

This article is the first one that analyzes the choice between crowdfunding and traditional financing as a security design problem. The value of this research comes from several points: 1) the origin of crowdfunding and its features has not been completely explained; 2) crowdfunding regulation is...

We assess how investors' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for sustainable investments responds to the impact of those investments, using a framed field experiment. Although investors have a substantial WTP for sustainable investments, they do not pay more for investments with more impact. This also...

We propose a theory in which each stock's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) score plays two roles: 1) providing information about firm fundamentals and 2) affecting investor preferences. The solution to the investor's portfolio problem is characterized by an ESG-efficient frontier,...

This article introduces an investor-oriented framework for the evaluation of renewable energy policy, applies these newly developed criteria to a qualitative comparison of the primary policy instruments, and offers recommendations to enhance the investor appeal of renewable energy in the United...

We develop a framework to explore the equilibrium implications of socially responsible investments (SRI). Investors acquire positions in ex-ante identical firms, and firms compete in selling products to consumers. A fraction of investors and consumers are socially responsible in that they value...