Since the seminal contribution of Berk, Green, and Naik (Journal of Finance, 1999), we have witnessed a growing interest in rationalizing the observed cross-sectional relation between investment and stock returns. Unfortunately, however, the extant literature falls short of ensuring that the...

Over the last three decades we have observed a dramatic increase in the concentration of income at the very top of the distribution. This increase in income inequality has been especially steep in the managerial occupations in financial industries, where it has often been associated with greater...