Joshua D. Coval

Harvard Business School - Finance Unit

Boston, MA 02163

United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

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Can Individual Investors Beat the Market?

HBS Finance Working Paper No. 04-025, Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-45
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2018
Joshua D. Coval, David A. Hirshleifer and Tyler Shumway
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Marshall School of Business, USC and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Individual Investors, Market Efficiency, Performance Persistence

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The Economics of Structured Finance

Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 09-060
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Oct 2008
Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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CDO, Structured Finance, Rating Agency

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Expected Option Returns

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Expected Option Returns

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Nov 1999
Tyler Shumway and Joshua D. Coval
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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Expected Option Returns

Journal of Finance
Posted: 16 Oct 2000
Joshua D. Coval and Tyler Shumway
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business

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Economic Catastrophe Bonds

HBS Finance Working Paper No. 07-102
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 26 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2008
Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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bond pricing, structured finance, credit derivatives, collateralized debt obligation (CDO), state price density, Arrow-Debreu

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Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

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Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

CRSP Working Paper No. 545; EFA 2003 Annual Conference Paper No. 884, HBS Finance Working Paper No. 04-023
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 17 Dec 2002
Randolph B. Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Lubos Pastor
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

NBER Working Paper No. w9359
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Dec 2002 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2022
Randolph B. Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Lubos Pastor
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 21 Feb 2003
Randolph B. Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Lubos Pastor
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Mutual funds, performance evaluation, persistence

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Asset Fire Sales (and Purchases) in Equity Markets

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Asset Fire Sales (and Purchases) in Equity Markets

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 May 2005
Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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Mutual fund flows, financial distress, price pressure

Asset Fire Sales (and Purchases) in Equity Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w11357
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Jun 2005 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2022
Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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The Geography of Investment: Informed Trading and Asset Prices

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The Geography of Investment: Informed Trading and Asset Prices

CRSP Working Paper No. 502
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Mar 2000
Joshua D. Coval, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Tobias J. Moskowitz
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Yale University, Yale SOMAQR Capital
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The Geography of Investment: Informed Trading and Asset Prices

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 109, August 2001
Posted: 21 Aug 2001
Joshua D. Coval, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Tobias J. Moskowitz
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Yale University, Yale SOMAQR Capital

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Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

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Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 30 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2016
Lauren Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Harvard Business School
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government spending, seniority, corporate behavior, investment, earmarks

Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

NBER Working Paper No. w15839
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2023
Lauren Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Harvard Business School
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Do Behavioral Biases Affect Prices?

EFA 2001 Barcelona Meetings
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 May 2001
Joshua D. Coval and Tyler Shumway
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Loss Aversion

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Deriving by Doing: A New Approach to Teaching Finance

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 25 Jun 2007
Joshua D. Coval, Jonathan Gadzik and Erik Stafford
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, upTick Learning and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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simulations, teaching finance, education

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Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

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Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 13 Dec 2004 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2008
Malcolm P. Baker, Joshua D. Coval and Jeremy C. Stein
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Inertia, mergers, equity issuance

Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

NBER Working Paper No. w10998
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2022
Malcolm P. Baker, Joshua D. Coval and Jeremy C. Stein
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 266-298, May 2007
Posted: 25 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2009
Joshua D. Coval, Jeremy C. Stein and Malcolm P. Baker
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Harvard Business School

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mergers, inertia, equity issuance

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Is Sound Just Noise?

EFA 0244; University of Michigan Business School Working Paper No. 98024
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Apr 1999
Joshua D. Coval and Tyler Shumway
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Sidelined Investors, Trading-Generated News, and Security Returns

Dice Working Paper No. 2000-2
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 10 Jul 2001
H. Henry Cao, Joshua D. Coval and David A. Hirshleifer
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Marshall School of Business, USC
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Financial Intermediation as a Beliefs-Bridge between Optimists and Pessimists

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming, HBS Finance Working Paper No. 04-024
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 May 2004
Joshua D. Coval and Anjan V. Thakor
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business
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Financial intermediation, optimism, pessimism

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Presentation Slides for 'Can Individual Investors Beat the Market?'

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Aug 2018
Joshua D. Coval, David A. Hirshleifer and Tyler Shumway
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Marshall School of Business, USC and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Individual Investors, Market Efficiency, Performance Persistence

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Sidelined Investors, Trading-Generated News, and the Conditional Moments of Stock Returns

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 615-648, 2002
Posted: 01 Dec 2008
H. Henry Cao, Joshua D. Coval and David A. Hirshleifer
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Marshall School of Business, USC

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Deception and Self-Deception in Capital Markets

DECEPTION IN MARKETS, Caroline Gerschlager, ed., pp. 131-169, Palgrave Macmillan/U.K, 2005
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2009
Joshua D. Coval, David A. Hirshleifer and Siew Hong Teoh
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Marshall School of Business, USC and UCLA Anderson School of Management

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Partners Healthcare

HBS Publishing Case No.: 9-206-005; Teaching Note No.: 5-206-024
Posted: 31 Oct 2005
Joshua D. Coval
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit

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Internal Financing of Multinational Subsidiaries: Debt vs. Equity

Posted: 02 Sep 1999
Bhagwan Chowdhry and Joshua D. Coval
UCLA Anderson and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit

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