Modern society is driven by electricity usage. I construct a proxy tracing regional economic intensity using electricity usage provided by utility firms in the United States from 1990 to 2020. After comparing electricity usage growth with common regional consumption measures, I find it a leading...

The existing literature shows that, due to locality and familiarity, spatial investor-firm adjacency plays a key role in determining stock investor attention, as proxied by the location where investors initiate an Internet search of the ticker symbol. This paper investigates whether Chinese...

Several prior studies indicate that financial analysts exhibit systematic underreaction to information; others illustrate systematic overreaction. We assume that cognitive biases influence analysts' behavior and that these misreactions are not systematic, but they depend on the nature of news....