Do investors value sustainability? A natural experiment examining ranking and fund flows

SM Hartzmark, AB Sussman - The Journal of Finance, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Examining a shock to the salience of the sustainability of the US mutual fund market, we
present causal evidence that investors marketwide value sustainability: being categorized …

Open source cross-sectional asset pricing

AY Chen, T Zimmermann - Critical Finance Review, Forthcoming, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
We provide data and code that successfully reproduces nearly all cross-sectional stock
return predictors. Our 319 characteristics draw from previous meta-studies, but we differ by …

Stock market returns and consumption

M Di Maggio, A Kermani, K Majlesi - The Journal of Finance, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper employs Swedish data on households' stock holdings to investigate how
consumption responds to changes in stock market returns. We instrument the actual capital …

What explains the dynamics of 100 anomalies?

H Jacobs - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2015 - Elsevier
Are anomalies strongest when investor sentiment or limits of arbitrage are considered to be
greatest? We empirically explore these theoretically deducted predictions. We first identify …

The worst, the best, ignoring all the rest: The rank effect and trading behavior

SM Hartzmark - The Review of Financial Studies, 2015 - academic.oup.com
I document a new stylized fact about how investors trade assets: individuals are more likely
to sell the extreme winning and extreme losing positions in their portfolio (“the rank effect”) …

The dividend disconnect

SM Hartzmark, DH Solomon - The Journal of Finance, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Many individual investors, mutual funds, and institutions trade as if dividends and capital
gains are disconnected attributes, not fully appreciating that dividends result in price …

Predictable price pressure

SM Hartzmark, DH Solomon - 2022 - nber.org
We demonstrate that predictable uninformed cash flows forecast market and individual stock
returns. Buying pressure from dividend payments (announced weeks prior) predicts higher …

Monetary policy and reaching for income

K Daniel, L Garlappi, K Xiao - The Journal of Finance, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Using data on individual portfolio holdings and on mutual fund flows, we find that low
interest rates lead to significantly higher demand for income‐generating assets such as high …

Recurring firm events and predictable returns: The within-firm time series

SM Hartzmark, DH Solomon - Annual Review of Financial …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
We review the literature on recurring firm events and predictable returns. Many common firm
events recur on a predictable basis, such as earnings and dividends, among others. These …

Information consumption and asset pricing

A Ben‐Rephael, BI Carlin, Z Da… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We study whether firm and macroeconomic announcements that convey systematic
information generate a return premium for firms that experience information spillovers. We …