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In this paper, we provide evidence that trading driven by investors' behavioral biases contributes to stock return momentum. In particular, we focus on two types of irrational trading, momentum trading and confidence-influenced trading, which could be driven by psychological biases introduced by...
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The turn-of-the-month effect in U.S. equities is found to be so powerful in the 1926-2005 period that, on average, investors received no reward for bearing market risk except at turns of the month. The effect is not confined to small-capitalization or low-price stocks, to calendar year-ends or...
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A turn-of-the-month effect in U.S. equity returns was initially identified by Lakonishok and Smidt (1988) using the DJIA for the period 1897-1986. According to the turn-of-the-month effect, equity returns over the interval beginning the last trading day of the month and ending three days later...
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By examining the post-retirement outside board seats held by former CEOs of S&P 1500 firms, we find that CEOs' post-retirement outside board memberships are influenced by the tone and level of media coverage given to the CEOs' firms while the CEOs were “on the job.” These results provide...
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