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"Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
Fear not,therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill
care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free..." –John Muir
"Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
Fear not,therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill
care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free..." –John Muir
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)
Short Interest and Aggregate Stock Returns (Digest Summary), CFA Institute, (Dec. 1, 2016)
Short Selling Found to Lead to Higher Returns, American Association of Individual Investors
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)
The Economics of Investor Engagement, CLS Blue Sky Blog of Columbia Law School (December 18, 2024)
The Economics of Investor Engagement, Oxford Business Law Blog (January 16, 2025)
Human traders are valuable, actually!, Financial Times (January 27, 2025)
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)
Podcast interview with Rational Reminder, (January 30, 2025)