We examine the relation between investor attention and financial market anomalies. We find that anomaly returns are higher following high-attention days. The result is robust after controlling for risk factors, the effect of news, and in a natural experiment setting in which the rounding of...

In simple univariate tests, the disposition effect for a stock nearly disappears if the portfolio is at a gain. We find a large disposition effect when the portfolio is at a loss. The portfolio-driven disposition effect that we document is not explained by extreme returns, portfolio rebalancing,...

This paper uses China's Split-Share Structure Reform to overcome methodological limitations that have hampered previous understanding of the slope of long-term demand curves. The reform mandated the conversion of non-tradable local A-shares to tradable status and increased A-share float, but had...