J. Anthony Cookson

University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business

Professor of Finance

Boulder, CO 80309-0419

United States

  • University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business

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“  I'm currently working on research at the intersection of novel information sources in financial markets -- e.g., social media, textual analysis of corporate disclosures -- and interactions between different types of investors, firms and consumers through financial markets.  ”

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1.

Social Media as a Bank Run Catalyst

Université Paris-Dauphine Research Paper No. 4422754
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 24 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2024
J. Anthony Cookson, Corbin Fox, Javier Gil-Bazo, Juan Felipe Imbet and Christoph Schiller
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, Clemson University - Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Université Paris Dauphine - Department of Finance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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Bank Runs, Social Media, Social Finance, FinTech

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Echo Chambers

The Review of Financial Studies, volume 36, issue 2, 2023 [10.1093/rfs/hhac058]
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 08 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2024
J. Anthony Cookson, Joseph Engelberg and William Mullins
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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selective exposure theory, echo chambers, confirmation bias, endogenous information acquisition

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A Text-Based Analysis of Corporate Innovation

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 01 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2019
Gustaf Bellstam, Sanjai Bhagat and J. Anthony Cookson
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Downloads 2,830 (10,096)
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Innovation, Text Analysis, Analyst Reports, Patenting

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Why Don't We Agree? Evidence from a Social Network of Investors

Journal of Finance, 75 (1), February 2020, pp. 173-228.
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 26 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 30 May 2024
J. Anthony Cookson and Marina Niessner
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
Downloads 2,080 (16,595)
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The Social Signal

Journal of Financial Economics, volume 158, 2024 [10.1016/j.jfineco.2024.103870]
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 21 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2024
J. Anthony Cookson, Runjing Lu, William Mullins and Marina Niessner
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Toronto, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
Downloads 1,828 (20,397)
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Social media, Retail trading, Social finance

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Social Media and Finance

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2024
J. Anthony Cookson, William Mullins and Marina Niessner
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
Downloads 1,432 (29,736)

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Social media, Social finance, information environment

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Can Social Media Inform Corporate Decisions? Evidence from Merger Withdrawals

Number of pages: 99 Posted: 21 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2024
J. Anthony Cookson, Marina Niessner and Christoph Schiller
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
Downloads 1,250 (36,019)
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Social Media, Social Finance, FinTech, Capital Allocation, M&A

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Growing Up Without Finance

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), 134 (3), December 2019, pp. 591-616., 7th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference 2016
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 14 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2020
James R. Brown, J. Anthony Cookson and Rawley Heimer
Iowa State University - Department of Finance, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P. Carey School of Business
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Household finance, Law and finance, Consumer credit, Early-life experiences, Banking development

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Speculative and Informative: Lessons from Market Reactions to Speculation Cues

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 03 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2024
J. Anthony Cookson, S. Katie Moon and Joonki Noh
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance
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Textual Analysis, 10-K Filings, Wikipedia, Weasel Words, Speculative language, Market Reactions, Information Asymmetry, Informed Trading Activity, News Sentiment

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Does Disagreement Facilitate Informed Trading?

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2024
J. Anthony Cookson, Vyacheslav Fos and Marina Niessner
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, Boston College - Department of Finance and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
Downloads 810 (66,478)

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disagreement, informed trading, short sellers, insider trading, activist investors

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Money to Burn: Crowdfunding Wildfire Recovery

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 09 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2024
J. Anthony Cookson, Emily Gallagher and Philip Mulder
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Downloads 797 (67,793)

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charity, social networks, inequality, GoFundMe, climate change, natural disasters

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Personal Wealth, Self-Employment, and Business Ownership

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Citation 30

Personal Wealth, Self-Employment, and Business Ownership

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 02 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2021
Aymeric Bellon, J. Anthony Cookson, Erik Gilje and Rawley Heimer
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P. Carey School of Business
Downloads 713 (77,306)
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self-employment; entrepreneurship; personal wealth; oil and gas; mineral rights

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Coverage Neglect in Homeowners Insurance

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 16 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2025
J. Anthony Cookson, Emily Gallagher and Philip Mulder
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Downloads 661 (86,433)
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Insurance Demand JEL Codes: G22, G41, G52, G53, Q54, R22, Climate Change, Information Frictions, Limited Attention, Natural Disasters, Underinsurance, Coverage Limits, Discrete Choice Models

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Market Signals from Social Media

FEB-RN Research Paper No. 63/2025, HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute - Archive
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 10 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 06 May 2025
J. Anthony Cookson, Runjing Lu, William Mullins and Marina Niessner
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Toronto, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
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Sentiment, Attention, Market-wide Signals, Social Media

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When Saving is Gambling

Finance Down Under 2015 Building on the Best from the Cellars of Finance Paper, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), 129 (1), July 2018, pp. 24-45.
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 01 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2020
J. Anthony Cookson
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Downloads 633 (91,386)
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household finance, prize linked savings, gambling markets, casino gambling, lottery

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Do I Really Want to Hear The News? Public Information Arrival and Ambiguity

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 14 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2025
Azi Ben-Rephael, J. Anthony Cookson and Yehuda (Yud) Izhakian
Rutgers Business School - Rutgers University, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and City University of New York, Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business - Department of Economics and Finance
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Disagreement, Trading, Knightian Uncertainty, Ambiguity, News, Investor Attention

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Does Partisanship Shape Investor Beliefs? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, volume 10, issue 4, 2020 [10.1093/rapstu/raaa018]
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 07 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2024
J. Anthony Cookson, Joseph Engelberg and William Mullins
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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COVID-19, partisanship, investor beliefs, disagreement, trading volume

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The Determinants of Bank Mergers: A Revealed Preference Analysis

Management Science 2016, 62 (8), 2241-2258
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2016
Oktay Akkus, J. Anthony Cookson and Ali Hortacsu
Bates White, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
Downloads 609 (95,968)
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mergers, matching, empirical matching models, antitrust, maximum score estimation, banking

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Investor Disagreement: Daily Measures from Social Media

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 29 May 2024
J. Anthony Cookson and Marina Niessner
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
Downloads 572 (104,662)
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Disagreement, Social Media, Social Finance, FinTech

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Assortative Matching and Reputation in the Market for First Issues

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2020
Oktay Akkus, J. Anthony Cookson and Ali Hortacsu
Bates White, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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two-sided matching, structural estimation, market for first issues

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Law and Finance Matter: Lessons from Externally Imposed Courts

Review of Financial Studies, 30 (3), March 2017, pp. 1019–1051.
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 10 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2020
James R. Brown, J. Anthony Cookson and Rawley Heimer
Iowa State University - Department of Finance, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P. Carey School of Business
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law and finance, courts, small business credit, credit markets, contract enforcement, Native American reservations

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Shale Shocked: Cash Windfalls and Household Debt Repayment

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 16 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2022
J. Anthony Cookson, Erik Gilje and Rawley Heimer
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P. Carey School of Business
Downloads 467 (133,346)
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household deleveraging; debt repayment; cash windfalls; shale; Fracking Revolution

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Trading, Ambiguity and Information in the Options Market

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 09 Aug 2022
Azi Ben-Rephael, J. Anthony Cookson and Yehuda (Yud) Izhakian
Rutgers Business School - Rutgers University, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and City University of New York, Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business - Department of Economics and Finance
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Knightian uncertainty, Options trading, Ambiguity measure, Limited participation, Portfolio inertia, Information inertia, Expected utility with uncertain probabilities.

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Disagreement on the Horizon

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 11 Jul 2024 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2024
J. Anthony Cookson, Chukwuma Dim and Marina Niessner
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, George Washington University and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
Downloads 385 (166,606)

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Social finance, social media, investment horizon, disagreement, trading

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Anticipated Entry and Entry Deterrence: Evidence from the American Casino Industry

Management Science, 64 (5), May 2018, pp. 1975-2471.
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2020
J. Anthony Cookson
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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Entry Deterrence, Strategic Preemption, Casino Industry

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Leverage and Strategic Preemption: Lessons from Entry Plans and Incumbent Investments

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 123, No. 2 (February 2017), Pages 292-312.
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2017
J. Anthony Cookson
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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leverage, strategic preemption, casino industry

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News Consumption in the Wild

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Feb 2024
J. Anthony Cookson, Diego Garcia and Elvis Jarnecic
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and The University of Sydney
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News, information consumption, attention, newspapers

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Immigration and Credit in America

Kilts Center at Chicago Booth Marketing Data Center Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 24 Mar 2025
J. Anthony Cookson, Benedict Guttman-Kenney and William Mullins
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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Immigration, Credit History, Household Credit, Thin Credit Files, Credit Reporting Data, Credit Access, Household Debt, Consumer Credit, Household Finance, Credit Access, Credit Bureau

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Does Contract Enforcement Mitigate Hold Up?

Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 7(2), September 2018, pp. 245–275.
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 29 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2020
J. Anthony Cookson
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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Hold-Up, Contract Enforcement, Investment, Native American Reservations

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Institutions and Casinos on American Indian Reservations: An Empirical Analysis of the Location of Indian Casinos

Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2010
Posted: 24 Jul 2011
J. Anthony Cookson
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business

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