News

Selected Media Mentions

My research has been discussed in a variety of media outlets including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal,  The Economist, The Atlantic, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and others.  See below for a selected sample:

• The Wisdom of the Short-Sellers, The New York Times (March 26, 2010)

• Money market funds mix low yields with high controversy, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (February 14, 2012)

• Analysis: Funds cut expenses lending hot stocks to shorters, Reuters (April 12, 2012)

• Short Sellers, News, and Information Processing, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (May 11, 2012)

• Don't Shortchange Short Sellers, BloombergView (June 24, 2014)

• This Is Why Shorting Stocks Is So Brutal, Business Insider (July 23, 2014)

• New stock market indicator shows 2015 will be profitable, MarketWatch, (February 6, 2015)

• Can you Predict Stock Market Returns with Short Interest?, Alpha Architect, (February 23, 2015)

• The Crucial Piece of Information That Big Traders Get Before Everyone Else, Bloomberg Business, (May 11, 2015)

• Uncovering a hidden indicator of stock market direction, The Dallas Morning News, (May 17, 2015)

• Is Passive Investment Actively Hurting the Economy, The New Yorker, (March 9, 2016)

• Do Index Funds Monitor?, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (July 30, 2019)

• US index funds less likely to hold companies to account, study finds, Financial Times (August 4, 2019)

• The Danger of Reusing Natural Experiments, Marginal Revolution, (September 25, 2019)

• What the Short Sellers Are Telling Us, the Wall Street Journal (May 3, 2020)

• Will the SEC Bust Facebook for Drugs?, Matt Levine's Money Stuff Column (May 28, 2020)

• If investors buy stocks in an index, who watches managers?, The Economist (November 12, 2020)

• Could Index Funds Be 'Worse Than Marxism'?, The Atlantic (April 5, 2021)

• Speech by Acting SEC Chair Allison Herren Lee on the Importance of Fund Voting and Disclosure, 2021 ICI Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference

• Does Socially Responsible Investing Change Firm Behavior?, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (July 29, 2021)

• Voting for Socially Responsible Corporate Policies, CLS Blue Sky Blog of Columbia Law School (May, 2022)

• On Index Investing, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (August, 2022)

• ESG Does Neither Much Good nor Very Well, the Wall Street Journal (September 12, 2022)

• ETFs with largest inflows underperform rivals, studies show, Financial Times (September 25, 2022)

• The Effect of Indexing on Price Discovery and Limits to Arbitrage, Alpha Architect (October 21, 2022)

• Responsible funds have no impact: study, Ignites Europe (January 31, 2023)

• Does Socially Responsible Investing Change Firm Behavior?, The FinReg Blog sponsored by the Duke Financial Economics Center (February, 2023)

• Are Short Covering Trades Informative?, Alpha Architect, (March 10, 2023)

• Short Sellers are more Bearish than they've been in a Long Time, MarketWatch, (May 15, 2023)

• The Politics of Academic Research, Marginal Revolution, (May 21, 2023)

• Nationalized, from "Daily Findings" by Kevin Lewis (June 9, 2023)

• Stock investors’ rising ‘wall of worry’ is supporting a new bull market, MarketWatch (June 23, 2023)

• Is Social Science Research Politically Biased?, University of Chicago ProMarket blog (November 15, 2023)

• Short Sellers Are More Bearish Than They've Been in Two Decades, Barron's (December 5, 2023)

Video/Audio Interviews

• Short Sellers: Villains or Visionaries? (October 26, 2012)

• New Index Predicts Stock Market (April 9, 2015)

• Anomaly Time - Video from the 2019 Jacobs Levy Center Frontiers in Quantitative Finance Conference  

• Podcast interview with Behind the Markets, (September 27, 2019)

• Navigating COVID-19: Cash is King (April 14, 2020)

• Podcast interview with The Finance Bro, (April 3, 2023)