One explanation for overpricing on asset markets is a lack of traders' self-control. Selfcontrol is the individual capacity to override or inhibit undesired impulses that may drive prices. We implement the first experiment to address the causal relationship between selfcontrol abilities and...

The US Treasury effectively ”owns” about 24% of the stocks held by high income US taxable investors. Through the capital gains tax, Uncle Sam has an effective exposure of more than $1 trillion of equities. And this huge-but-silent investor might be about to get a lot bigger if capital gains...

The present study explores the effect of the gambler’s fallacy on stock trading volumes. I hypothesize that if a stock’s price rises (falls) during a number of consecutive trading days, then the gambler’s fallacy may cause at least some of the investors to expect that the stock’s price...

One explanation for overpricing on asset markets is a lack of traders' self-control. Self-control is the individual capacity to override or inhibit undesired impulses that may drive prices. We implement the first experiment to address the causal relationship between self-control abilities and...

We extend the noise trader risk model of Delong et al. (J Polit Econ 98:703–738, 1990) to a model with multiple risky assets to demonstrate the effect of investor sentiment on the cross-section of stock returns. Our model formally demonstrates that market-wide sentiment leads to relatively...

This study examines the relation between both number and news content of earnings disclosures by firms and aggregate stock market trading activity. Consistent with the Hirshleifer, Lim, and Teoh (2009a) distraction hypothesis, among announcing firms the number of contemporaneous announcers...

This study examined the relation between the volume of earnings disclosures by firms and aggregate stock market trading activity. Although the relation between the trading activity experienced by disclosing firms and announcement volume is negative, consistent with the firm level evidence of...

Designated market makers (DMMs) are contractually obligated to increase liquidity provision when trading volume breaches a floor. Using this feature in a regression discontinuity design, we show that increased DMM participation facilitates price informativeness with respect to earnings news....

Firms often issue disaggregated earnings forecasts, and prior research reveals benefits to doing so. However, we hypothesize and experimentally find that the benefits of disaggregated forecasts do not necessarily carry over to the time of actual earnings announcements. Rather, disaggregated...

We examine how investor attention changes when a firm adopts a modern news dissemination technology. We find that after continental European firms begin using an English-language electronic wire service to disseminate company news, they exhibit a stronger initial reaction to earnings surprises,...