Rawley Heimer

Boston College - Department of Finance

Carroll School of Management

140 Commonwealth Avenue

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3808

United States

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Facebook Finance: How Social Interaction Propagates Active Investing

AFA 2013 San Diego Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2012
David Simon and Rawley Heimer
Brandeis University - International Business School and Boston College - Department of Finance
Downloads 1,124 (18,964)
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FX trading, leveraged trading, networks in finance

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YOLO: Mortality Beliefs and Household Finance Puzzles

Journal of Finance, Vol. Forthcoming, FRB of Cleveland Working Paper No. 15-21
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 07 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2018
Rawley Heimer, Kristian Ove R. Myrseth and Raphael Schoenle
Boston College - Department of Finance, University of York and Brandeis University
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Subjective beliefs, Savings and consumption decisions, Life cycle model, Household finance, Discount factors, Salience

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Peer Pressure: Social Interaction and the Disposition Effect

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 02 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2016
Rawley Heimer
Boston College - Department of Finance
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Individual Investors, Disposition Effect, Behavioral Biases, Social Networks, Causal Peer Effects

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Should Retail Investors' Leverage Be Limited?

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Should Retail Investors' Leverage Be Limited?

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 23 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2018
Rawley Heimer and Alp Simsek
Boston College - Department of Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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Leverage Constraints, Retail Trading, Speculation, Brokerage Sector, Bid-Ask Spreads, Welfare Criterion

Should Retail Investors' Leverage Be Limited?

NBER Working Paper No. w24176
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 03 Jan 2018
Rawley Heimer and Alp Simsek
Boston College - Department of Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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Growing Up Without Finance

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, 7th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference 2016
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 14 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2018
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 Boston College - Department of Finance
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Household finance, Law and finance, Consumer credit, Early-life experiences, Banking development

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Pushing Boundaries: Political Redistricting and Consumer Credit

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2018
Pat Akey, Christine Dobridge, Rawley Heimer and Stefan Lewellen
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Boston College - Department of Finance and Pennsylvania State University
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gerrymandering, Redistricting, consumer credit, household finance, political competition

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Law and Finance Matter: Lessons from Externally Imposed Courts

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 10 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2016
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 Boston College - Department of Finance
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law and finance, courts, small business credit, credit markets, contract enforcement, Native American reservations

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Politicizing Consumer Credit

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 27 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 15 May 2018
Pat Akey, Rawley Heimer and Stefan Lewellen
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Boston College - Department of Finance and Pennsylvania State University
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Access to Credit, Household Finance, Political Connections, Community Reinvestment Act

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Doing Less With More

9th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference 2018
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 29 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2019
Rawley Heimer and Alex Imas
Boston College - Department of Finance and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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Loss Chasing, Disposition Effect, Prospect Theory, Behavioral Finance

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Friends Do Let Friends Buy Stocks Actively

FRB of Cleveland Working Paper No. 13-14
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Nov 2013
Rawley Heimer
Boston College - Department of Finance
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behavioral finance, individual investors, social interaction