We explore if sleep deprivation affects how investors react to relevant news. Using the transition to Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the spring as a disruption to sleeping patterns, we show that investors underreact to a firm’s earnings surprise in the days after the transition to DST. Further,...

Investors have been shown to have particular preferences when it comes to the characteristics of stock they hold in their portfolios, while prior gains and losses have been shown to impact on individuals' economic decisions, both in an investment context and more widely. This paper is the first...

Measuring fund clientele by investors’ revealed usage of different asset pricing models, we show that funds with more CAPM investors perform better, all else equal. This predictability is not because the CAPM-alpha predicts future fund performance but because it reflects investor...