I investigate whether one of the reasons for a significant increase in retail trading during Covid-19 lockdown was the substitution of sports betting with stock trading. I find that the number of retail accounts holding stocks in companies based in states where online sports betting has launched...

We investigate whether unexpected US sports outcomes (underdog wins) affect retail investor behaviour. We conjecture that the mood boost and satisfaction that retail investors receive from witnessing an underdog win will affect their risk tolerance, and therefore cause them to buy more shares....

This study investigates retail investor response to corporate engagement in corporate socio-political activism (CSA). Using manually collected evidence of companies’ support for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign, we find that speaking up in support of BLM attracts retail investor...

We examine whether, and how, shareholders' votes in the Say-on-Pay (SOP) are affected by the readability of the Compensation Discussion and Analysis (CD&A). Despite the SEC's Plain English requirement, qualitative disclosures on executive remuneration are generally long and complex. Extant...