Financial researchers agree that allocating money to employer stock in a 401(k) plan is a poor strategy, yet many employees do so. Not only does this investment strategy bear unrewarded idiosyncratic risk, but it also correlates employees' retirement portfolios with their human capital. I find...

While most researchers agree on the existence of disposition, there still remains question regarding its cause. In this study, I investigate whether prospect theory is a potential cause by observing levels of disposition among insiders relative to information and risk. I find that while...