Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- 1. Biology and Psychology in Finance -- Nature versus Nurture -- What Can We Learn from the Financial Decisions of Twins? -- Investment of Adoptees and the Human Genome -- Do Men...

I employ a unique NFL gambling dataset to disentangle information asymmetry between bettors and sportsbooks. In contrast to expectations, I find no evidence that sportsbooks hold more information than the bettors. In fact, the results show that in instances where sportsbooks behave as if they...

We show evidence of local spillover effects in corporate innovation productivity. Specifically, we find that firms’ patent counts and patent citations are positively related to the innovation output of other local firms, including those firms in different industries. We rule out exogenous...

We examine whether the stronger information content of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) insider trading relative to that of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) results from a different willingness to exploit the information asymmetry that exists between executives and outside shareholders (scrutiny...