I conduct lab-in-the-field experiments using a stylized optimal stopping problem, through which I separately identify the exact threshold values for the disposition effect in the gain and loss domains. I further combine the experimental results with actual account-level trading records....

We study a search and bargaining model of an asset market, where investors' heterogeneous valuations for the asset are drawn from an arbitrary distribution. Our solution technique makes the model fully tractable and allows us to provide a full characterization of the unique equilibrium, in...

In trading stocks investors naturally aspire to "buy low and sell high (BLSH)". This paper formalizes the notion of BLSH by formulating stock buying/selling in terms of four optimal stopping problems involving the global maximum and minimum of the stock prices over a given investment horizon....