The security market line (SML) accords with the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) by taking on an upward slope in pessimistic sentiment periods, but is downward sloping during optimistic periods. We hypothesize that this finding obtains because periods of optimism attract equity investment by...

How do exchange-traded funds (ETFs) influence real investment policies? We find that ETF ownership is associated with an increase in the sensitivity of real investment to Tobin's q. This implies a managerial learning channel, wherein higher ETF ownership increases price informativeness about...

The implementation of Bike-Sharing Systems (BSS) is expected to lead to modifications in the travel habits of transport users, one of which is the choice of travel mode. This change could depend on various factors, and hence, it is pertinent to identify them. Especially, given that cities aim to...

Extreme negative events adversely influence people's sentiment and induce pessimism in risk assessments in unrelated domains. Motivated by this finding, we examine whether managers of firms located in close proximity to terrorist attacks and mass shootings become more pessimistic and choose more...

We examine whether commonality in liquidity arises from style investing. We sort stocks into styles along widely-used size and growth dimensions, and show that style-related commonality in liquidity is significant, dominates commonality in liquidity with the rest of the market, and has more than...

We examine whether travelling to foreign countries affects international equity investment decisions. Our key conjecture is that travel to a foreign country will increase familiarity with that country, which in turn can stimulate equity investments. The results strongly confirm this hypothesis....

We ask to what extent task knowledge and tactics, or enduring personality traits, predict behaviour and biases in a stock trading setting. We base our study on an exceptionally wide-ranging dataset: responses to a self-report survey, together with transactional data of the same individual...