Chapter 1 investigates how people's beliefs and investment behavior change in light of social information from their peers and from experts with a large-scale online experiment with participants from the U.S. and the U.K. I find that laypeople’s forecasts are strongly influenced by information...

Preisbildung an Aktienmärkten -- Ausgewählte empirische Untersuchungen zur Erklärung von Information Mirages -- Information Mirages an experimentellen Wertpapierbörsen -- Methodik zur Analyse von Information Mirages an der Computerbörse CAT -- Spezifikation der Information Mirages an der...

Many commentators have suggested that companies pay top executives with deferred compensation, a type of incentive known as inside debt. Recent SEC disclosure reforms greatly increased the transparency of deferred compensation. We investigate stockholder and bondholder reactions to companies’...

The correlation of returns for various equity asset classes has been high. In addition, the range or "dispersion" of returns across asset classes - and across sectors within those asset classes - has been low. These factors have made it difficult for active managers to outperform. But dispersion...

Dividends have long been perceived as a way for firms to reward investors. However, managers are likely to inflate return on equity (ROE) by paying out dividends because doing so reduces owners’ equity. We utilise performance-vesting equity incentive plans that adopt ROE as the performance...