We find that investor sentiment should affect a firm's employment policy in a world with moral hazard and noise traders. Consistent with the model's predictions, we show that higher sentiment among US investors leads to: (1) higher employment growth worldwide; (2) lower labor productivity, as the...

We develop a multi-country model with moral hazard and noise traders, and show that investor sentiment should affect employment growth both domestically and abroad. Using a large sample of international industry-level data, we find strong support for the model's predictions. We show that US...

Previous research shows that high sentiment among U.S. investors increases real investment both domestically and abroad. In this paper, we show that high sentiment among U.S. investors also prompts financially developed countries to invest more in the United States, especially if they exhibit a...

This paper studies the added value of intentional style herding for mutual fund managers. We find that herding in styles is significant and persistent, especially for active funds. We also report that herding tends to increase after periods of high market volatility, and decrease with sentiment....

We study whether disagreement is a useful proxy for uncertainty in the foreign exchange market using monthly forecasts for the euro, British pound, and Japanese yen against the US dollar over the 2001 - 2017 period. We obtain measures of uncertainty and find that disagreement is not robustly...

We study whether disagreement is a useful proxy for uncertainty in the foreign exchange market using monthly forecasts for the euro, British pound, and Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar over the 2001 - 2017 period. We obtain measures of uncertainty and find that disagreement is not robustly...

We estimate a heterogeneous agent model on five prominent equity investment styles - value, size, profitability, investment, and momentum - and find evidence for behavioral heterogeneity in expected return formation. Our model features two groups of boundedly rational investors, fundamentalists...