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Geoffrey Tate
Researcher at National Bureau of Economic Research
Publications - 36
Citations - 12474
Geoffrey Tate is an academic researcher from National Bureau of Economic Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Overconfidence effect & External financing. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 35 publications receiving 10771 citations. Previous affiliations of Geoffrey Tate include University of Pennsylvania & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Attention for the Inattentive: Positive Effects of Negative Financial Shocks
Paige Ouimet,Geoffrey Tate +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that negative shocks lead to changes in portfolio choices among previously inattentive investors, which can increase attention among previously passive investors, yielding decisions that are closer to the optimum.
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Investor Experience and Attention: The Effect of Financial Shocks on Individual Trading Decisions
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of the 2008 financial crisis on individual investors' participation and trading decisions are estimated using unique data on employee ownership plans sponsored by U.S. public companies, and they find that low-experience employees also increase their participation in employee stock purchase plans following the shock.
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Who Makes Acquisitions? CEO Overconfidence and the MarketAS Reaction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors classify CEOs as overconfident when, despite their under-diversification, they hold options on company stock until expiration, and find that these CEOs are more acquisitive on average, particularly via diversifying deals.
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Entrepreneurial Teams: Diversity of Skills and Early-Stage Growth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use employer-employee linked data to track the employment histories of team members prior to startup formation for a full cohort of new firms in the U.S. using pre-startup industry experience to measure skillsets.
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Learning from Coworkers: Peer Effects on Individual Investment Decisions
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of networks on investment decisions in U.S. public stock purchase plans has been studied and found that more similar employees exert greater influence on each other's decisions and that high (low) information employees are most affected by other high information employees.