Brad M. Barber
University of California, Davis
2 papers in the Anchorcite directory, published between 2001 and 2007, cited 10,276 times in total.
Research topics
- Financial Markets and Investment Strategies · 2 papers
- Housing Market and Economics · 2 papers
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · 1 paper
- Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis · 1 paper
Frequent co-authors
- Terry Odean · 1 paper
- Terrance Odean · 1 paper
Papers
- Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock InvestmentThe Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2001 · 5,455 citations
Theoretical models predict that overconfident investors trade excessively. We test this prediction by partitioning investors on gender. Psychological research demonstrates that, in areas such as finance, men are more overconfident than women. Thus, theory predicts that men will trade more…
- All That Glitters: The Effect of Attention and News on the Buying Behavior of Individual and Institutional InvestorsReview of Financial Studies · 2007 · 4,821 citations
We test and confirm the hypothesis that individual investors are net buyers of attention-grabbing stocks, e.g., stocks in the news, stocks experiencing high abnormal trading volume, and stocks with extreme one-day returns. Attention-driven buying results from the difficulty that investors…
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