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David H. Solomon
Researcher at Boston College
Publications - 33
Citations - 2069
David H. Solomon is an academic researcher from Boston College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Disposition effect & Dividend. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 33 publications receiving 1734 citations. Previous affiliations of David H. Solomon include University of Southern California & University of Chicago.
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Selective Publicity and Stock Prices
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how media coverage of a company's good and bad news affects the stock price response, by looking at the effect of investor relations (IR) firms, and argue that IR firms are causally affecting both media coverage and returns.
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Selective Publicity and Stock Prices
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how media coverage of good and bad corporate news affects stock prices, by studying the effect of investor relations (IR) firms, and they find that IR firms "spin" their clients' news, generating more coverage of positive press releases than negative press releases.
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Winners in the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Fund Holdings as a Driver of Flows
TL;DR: The authors show that media coverage of mutual fund holdings affects how investors allocate money across funds, but only if these stocks were recently featured in the media, while holdings that were not covered in major newspapers do not affect flows.
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Winners in the spotlight: Media coverage of fund holdings as a driver of flows $
TL;DR: The authors show that media coverage of mutual fund holdings affects how investors allocate money across funds, but only if these stocks were recently featured in the media, while holdings that were not covered in major newspapers do not affect flows.
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Looking for Someone to Blame: Delegation, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Disposition Effect
TL;DR: This article analyzed brokerage data and an experiment to test a cognitive dissonance based theory of trading: investors avoid realizing losses because they dislike admitting that past purchases were mistakes, but delegation reverses this effect by allowing the investor to blame the manager instead.