Kent D. Daniel’s research while affiliated with Columbia College - South Carolina and other places

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Publications (30)


Teaching Slides on Short and Long Horizon Behavioral Factors
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January 2021

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1 Citation

SSRN Electronic Journal

Kent D. Daniel

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Lin Sun

Short- and Long-Horizon Behavioral Factors

April 2020

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243 Reads

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310 Citations

Review of Financial Studies

We propose a theoretically motivated factor model based on investor psychology and assess its ability to explain the cross-section of U.S. equity returns. Our factor model augments the market factor with two factors that capture long- and short-horizon mispricing. The long-horizon factor exploits the information in managers’ decisions to issue or repurchase equity in response to persistent mispricing. The short-horizon earnings surprise factor, which is motivated by investor inattention and evidence of short-horizon underreaction, captures short-horizon anomalies. This 3-factor risk-and-behavioral model outperforms other proposed models in explaining a broad range of return anomalies. (JEL G12, G14) Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.



Declining CO 2 price paths
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October 2019

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Significance Risk and uncertainty are important in pricing climate damages. Despite a burgeoning literature, attempts to marry insights from asset pricing with climate economics have largely failed to supplement—let alone supplant—decades-old climate–economy models, largely due to their analytic and computational complexity. Here, we introduce a simple, modular framework that identifies core trade-offs, highlights the sensitivity of results to key inputs, and helps pinpoint areas for further work.

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A Theory of Costly Sequential Bidding*

August 2018

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36 Reads

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27 Citations

European Finance Review

We model sequential bidding in a private value English auction when it is costly to submit or revise a bid. We show that, even when bid costs approach zero, bidding occurs in repeated jumps, consistent with certain types of natural auctions such as takeover contests. In contrast with most past models of bids as valuation signals, every bidder has the opportunity to signal and increase the bid by a jump. Jumps communicate bidders' information rapidly, leading to contests that are completed in a few bids. The model additionally predicts; informative delays in the start of bidding; that the probability of a second bid decreases in, and the jump increases in, the first bid; that objects are sold to the highest valuation bidder; and that revenue and efficiency relationships between different auctions hold asymptotically.



Overconfident Investors, Predictable Returns, and Excessive Trading †

November 2015

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430 Reads

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249 Citations

Journal of Economic Perspectives

The last several decades have witnessed a shift away from a fully rational paradigm of financial markets toward one in which investor behavior is influenced by psychological biases. Two principal factors have contributed to this evolution: a body of evidence showing how psychological bias affects the behavior of economic actors; and an accumulation of evidence that is hard to reconcile with fully rational models of security market trading volumes and returns. In particular, asset markets exhibit trading volumes that are high, with individuals and asset managers trading aggressively, even when such trading results in high risk and low net returns. Moreover, asset prices display patterns of predictability that are difficult to reconcile with rational-expectations–based theories of price formation. In this paper, we discuss the role of overconfidence as an explanation for these patterns.


Overconfident Investors, Predictable Returns, and Excessive Trading

January 2015

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34 Reads

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7 Citations

SSRN Electronic Journal

The last several decades have witnessed a shift away from a fully rational paradigm of financial markets toward one in which investor behavior is influenced by psychological biases. Two principal factors have contributed to this evolution: a body of evidence showing how psychological bias affects the behavior of economic actors; and an accumulation of evidence that is hard to reconcile with fully rational models of security market trading volumes and returns. In particular, asset markets exhibit trading volumes that are high, with individuals and asset managers trading aggressively, even when such trading results in high risk and low net returns. Moreover, asset prices display patterns of predictability that are difficult to reconcile with rational expectations-based theories of price formation. In this paper, we discuss the role of overconfidence as an explanation for these patterns.


Market Reaction to Tangible and Intangible Information

February 2006

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351 Reads

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517 Citations

The Journal of Finance

The book-to-market effect is often interpreted as evidence of high expected returns on stocks of "distressed" firms with poor past performance. We dispute this interpretation. We find that while a stock's future return is unrelated to the firm's past accounting-based performance, it is strongly negatively related to the "intangible" return, the component of its past return that is orthogonal to the firm's past performance. Indeed, the book-to-market ratio forecasts returns because it is a good proxy for the intangible return. Also, a composite equity issuance measure, which is related to intangible returns, independently forecasts returns. Copyright 2006 by The American Finance Association.



Citations (28)


... Thus, psychological factors influence more on stock returns more, and more opportunities are created. The previous strategy was tested in the US market and had a quiet, pleasant result in explaining the stock returns by Daniel, Hirshleifer, and Sun [7]. However, the market situation in the US and different from that in China. ...

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Arbitrage Strategy Based on DHS Pricing Model
Teaching Slides on Short and Long Horizon Behavioral Factors
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  • January 2021

SSRN Electronic Journal

... Several studies show that risk factors explain stock returns (e.g., Fama and French, 1993, 1996. However, many studies argue that the variation in stock returns stems from behavioural biases (e.g., investor mood) rather than risk premiums (Barberis et al., 1998;Daniel et al., 2020;Daniel et al., 1998Daniel et al., , 2001Hirshleifer and Jiang, 2010). It is well documented in the psychology literature that mood affects decision-making, and people are more optimistic when they are in a good mood (e.g., Bagozzi et al., 1999;Wright and Bower, 1992); i.e., the number of sunshine hours (e.g., Eagles, 1994;Tietjen and Kripke, 1994), results of sporting events (Edmans et al., 2007), and music (Edmans et al., 2022) reflect people's mood and consequently affect stock market returns. ...

Short- and Long-Horizon Behavioral Factors
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  • April 2020

Review of Financial Studies

... We complement their findings by showing that SOEs invest more in green projects when the government increases the stringency of environmental regulations. 5 Our paper is also distantly related to the broader literature on corporate "green" engagement and CSR activities in general: see, e.g.,Cumming and Johan (2007),Daniel et al. (2019),Barber et al. (2021), Flammer (2020,Larcker and Watts (2020),Chen et al. (2021), and Kacperczyk (2021, 2023).Content courtesy of Springer Nature, terms of use apply. Rights reserved. ...

Declining CO 2 price paths

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

... Linnainmaa (2010) finds that individual investors underperform related to informed traders because the latter select their limit orders. More specifically, the returns on individual investor trades that originate from 2 The following authors also provide literature reviews dedicated to behavioral economics and finance: Rabin (1998), Shiller (1999), Hirshleifer (2001), Daniel et al. (2002), Barberis and Thaler (2003), Campbell (2006), Benartzi and Thaler (2007), and Subrahmanyam (2008). limit orders lose 0.51% on the day following a trade and 3.3% over a 63-day period. ...

Investor Psychology in Capital Markets: Evidence and Policy Implications
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  • January 2001

SSRN Electronic Journal

... Extant studies has been carried out on exploring the various biases exhibited by investors while making investment decisions in financial markets. The individual biases of investors were identified using stock market returns and trading data which included overreaction (Daniel, Hirshleifer, & Subrahmanyam, 1998)mental accounting (Tversky & Kahneman, 1973) heuristics (Kempf & Ruenzi, 2006;Kengatharan & Kengatharan, 2014) herding (Shiller, 2000;Shiller & Pound, 1989) er, in day to day and in complex situations, investors tend to use diverse criteria than using a single approach for investment decisions .The investor surveys examined the collective biases exhibited by the investors that impact their decisions (Hair, Ringle, & Sarstedt, 2011;Hu & Bentler, 1999;Lai et al., 2013;Lakshmi, Visalakshmi, Thamaraiselvan, & Senthilarasu, 2013;Shabgou & Mousavi, 2016;Waweru, Munyoki, & Uliana, 2008) proposed a conceptual framework comprising of the three constructs Contingent Scaffolding, Facile Affixation and Antecedent Aftermath which influence ...

(Presentation Slides) Investor Overconfidence, Covariance Risk, and Predictors of Securities Returns
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  • January 1998

SSRN Electronic Journal

... First, exploring the benefits of factor investing across different economic states along the lines of Briere and Szafarz (2017a) or using the regime switching method of Ang and Bekaert (2004). Second, using a broader range of a different set of factors from newer factor models as Hou et al (2015), Stambaugh and Yuan (2017), Daniel et al. (2017), and Barillas, Kan, Robotti, and Shanken (2017). Third, examining the benefits of factor investing using small spread factors as Fama and French (2017). ...

Short and Long Horizon Behavioral Factors
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  • January 2017

SSRN Electronic Journal

... Kendisine aşırı güvenen yatırımcılar, daha yüksek getiriler elde edebileceklerine olan aşırı inancın da etkisiyle, diğer yatırımcılardan daha fazla işlem gerçekleştirmektedirler (Barber ve Odean, 2001;Daniel ve Hirshleifer, 2015). Buradan hareketle bu çalışmada, Borsa İstanbul'da aşırı güven ön yargısının izleri işlem hacmi özelinde yatırımcıların ortalama elde tutma süreleri ile işlem hacmi devir hızı rasyosunun çeşitli ülke borsaları ile karşılaştırılması suretiyle ele alınmıştır. ...

Overconfident Investors, Predictable Returns, and Excessive Trading
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  • January 2015

SSRN Electronic Journal

... [7][8]. Daniel, Hirshleifer and Subrahmanyam illustrate that Investors with information may have overconfidence and selfattribution when making investment decisions [9]. This paper applies different time arrangements and factor models to help examine the predictable behavior of momentum and reversal effect in different time horizons to discover time-series momentum caused by historical events. ...

Chapter 13. Investor Psychology and Security Market Under- and Overreaction
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  • January 2005

... 미국 주택시장에서의 모멘텀 효과는 하나의 정형화된 사실로 여겨지며 (Beracha & Skiba, 2009;Glaeser & Nathanson, 2017;Pan, 2024), 최근에는 한국의 서울특별시 아파트 시장에서도 이러 한 효과가 존재함이 확인되었다 (최윤호, 2024 (Daniel et al., 1998;De Long et al., 1990). 두 번째 설명은 정보에 대한 과소 반응으로 인한 가격의 점진적 상승이다. ...

Investor psychology and security market under-and overreaction
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  • January 2005