- Filter By.
-
Topic (${ Topics.length })
-
-
Type (${ ContentTypes.length })
-
Contributor (${ Contributors.length })
- Relevance
- Newest
- Oldest
Podcast
Silly Things Investors Do
August 1, 2018
An all-star lineup, including Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler, joins The Curious Investor hosts to explain some of the most common biases that creep into our investment decisions.
Working Paper
When Is Bargaining Successful? Negotiated Division of Tournament Prizes
June 5, 2008
High-stakes poker players often negotiate the distribution among a small number of finalists rather than playing through until only one player remains. We find that this setting is ideal for studying bargaining—this paper documents our findings.
Working Paper
The Returns to Entrepreneurial Investment: A Private Equity Premium Puzzle?
November 24, 2009
Entrepreneurs tend to concentrate investments in private equity. However, research shows that private equity returns are generally no higher than the market return on all publicly traded equity. We delve into explanations for this here.
Working Paper
Acting on the Most Valuable Information: “Best Idea” Trades of Mutual Fund Managers
March 17, 2009
This paper proposes an ex ante proxy for the ranking of mutual fund trades. We find that the most attractive trades—the “best ideas"—beat the benchmarks by up to about 0.30% per month and outperform other fund trades by even higher margins.
Working Paper
Rationality and Risk Intelligence in Binary Betting
May 21, 2013
We seek to answer two questions about people who bet on financial-market outcomes: Do they have skill? Do they have risk intelligence? We analyzed a data set of 1.6 million bets to find out.
Working Paper
Follow the Leader: Peer Effects in Mutual Fund Portfolio Decisions
February 1, 2009
This paper demonstrates that mutual funds “follow the leaders"—Trades of well-performing funds are statistically and economically important determinants of subsequent portfolio decisions of the remaining managers.
Working Paper
Decision-Making Under the Gambler's Fallacy
March 11, 2015
Reviewing decisions made by judges, loan officers and umpires in high-stakes contexts, we find them to be most consistent with the "gambler's fallacy"—meaning they were based as much on their own previous decisions as on the facts they were weighing.
Alternative Thinking
Bad Habits and Good Practices
3Q 2014
Good investing requires good investments and good investors. We discuss the latter and address bad habits that can affect long-term performance.
Perspective
Don't Go for the Exacta
October 27, 2015
It’s hard enough to be right. It’s much harder to be right multiple times in a row. Cliff delves into two-step bets and offer insight on when they’re a bad idea.
Perspective
Banter Is Coming
May 29, 2019
We have a lot of great topics and special guests coming up on season two of The Curious Investor.