Attention stock-market followers – have you considered whether weekend comedy-movie attendance, and investment in risky stock-market assets on the following Monday might be linked? This question has been the subject of an in-depth investigation by Gabriele M. Lepori, (formerly) Assistant Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (now at Keele Management School, UK). His […]
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Long-term results: Should You Trade Stocks Randomly?
The Ig Nobel Prize-winning Italian researchers who demonstrated the benefits, for organizations, of promoting people at random have turned their analytical weapons on a new target. Their new study examines what happens over the long term if one randomly, rather than systematically, chooses stocks: “Are random trading strategies more successful than technical ones?” A.E. Biondo, […]
Effect of Wind on Stock Market Returns
“Effect of Wind on Stock Market Returns: Evidence from European Markets,” Hui-Chu Shu and Mao-Wei Hung, Applied Financial Economics, vol. 19, no. 11, 2009, pp. 893–904, DOI 0.1080/09603100802243766. (Thanks to Kajbaje Sudhanshu for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at National Taiwan University, report [AIR 16:1]: This study investigated the relationship between wind speed […]
“in a brain scanner… stocks & bonds”
This week’s Phrase of the Week is: “participants were placed in a brain scanner while they chose stocks and bonds“. The phrase appears in a Feb 1, 2010 Carolyn Johnson article in the Boston Globe. The article describes the study “Variability in Nucleus Accumbens Activity Mediates Age-Related Suboptimal Financial Risk Taking,” Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Camelia […]