Jonathan Berk

Stanford Graduate School of Business

A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance

655 Knight Way

Stanford, CA 94305-5015

United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (31)

1.

A Checklist for Reviewing a Paper

Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2017-03, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-6
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 21 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2020
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Marshall School of Business, USC
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Referee Report, Cover Letter, Conflicts of Interest

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Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2016
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Marshall School of Business, USC
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Referee report, Cover letter, Ethics, Conflicts of Interest

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The Impact of Impact Investing

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper , Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School Research Paper Series No. 22-008
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2022
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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ESG, Impact Investing, Environmental, Social, Governance

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Citation 260

Measuring Skill in the Mutual Fund Industry

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2020
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 4,900 (3,260)
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Mutual Funds, Skill, Compensation

Measuring Managerial Skill in the Mutual Fund Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w18184
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2023
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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How to Write an Effective Referee Report and Improve the Scientific Review Process

Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-47
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2016
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Marshall School of Business, USC
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Referee report, Cover letter, Ethics, Conflicts of Interest

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Citation 164

Assessing Asset Pricing Models Using Revealed Preference

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 17 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2020
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 3,399 (5,991)
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Asset Pricing Models, Factor Models, Test, Mutual Fund Flows

Assessing Asset Pricing Models Using Revealed Preference

NBER Working Paper No. w20435
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 03 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 04 May 2023
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Citation 856

Mutual Fund Flows and Performance in Rational Markets

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 31 Jul 2003
Richard C. Green and Jonathan Berk
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads 2,810 (8,073)
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Mutual Fund Flows and Performance in Rational Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w9275
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Oct 2002 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2022
Richard C. Green and Jonathan Berk
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads 476 (104,380)
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Mutual Fund Flows and Performance in Rational Markets

Posted: 02 Nov 2004
Richard C. Green and Jonathan Berk
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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How Do Investors Measure Risk?

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 Oct 2015
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Regulation of Charlatans in High-Skill Professions

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-43
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 04 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2020
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 1,766 (16,927)

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Charlatans, Regulation, Information Disclosure, Licensing, Competition

Regulation of Charlatans in High-Skill Professions

NBER Working Paper No. w23696
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 21 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2023
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Citation 47

Matching Capital and Labor

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2016
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Matching, Capital Allocation, Theory of the Firm

Matching Capital and Labor

NBER Working Paper No. w20138
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 May 2014 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2023
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Citation 20

Mutual Funds in Equilibrium

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-13
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2017
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 1,136 (32,782)
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Mutual Funds, Equilibrium, Alpha, Size, Rational Expectations

Mutual Funds in Equilibrium

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 9, pp. 147-167, 2017
Posted: 03 Jan 2018
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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Valuation and Return Dynamics of Research and Development Ventures

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 29 Mar 1998
Jonathan Berk, Richard C. Green and Vasant Naik
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Lehman Brothers International, Europe
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The SEC's Misguided Climate Disclosure Rule Proposal

GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 61, 2022, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 61, 2022, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2022-27, 41 Banking & Financial Services Policy Report 1, 2022, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-17, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 4256724
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 27 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2023
George Washington University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Emory University School of Law, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh - Katz School of Business, University of Delaware - John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School, Fordham University School of Law, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, George Washington University - Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Yale Law School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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SEC authority, climate disclosure, ESG, institutional investors, individual investors, information economics, government policy, financial markets, government power

Optimal Investment, Growth Options, and Security Returns

NBER Working Paper No. w6627
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2022
Jonathan Berk, Richard C. Green and Vasant Naik
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Lehman Brothers International, Europe
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Optimal Investment, Growth Options and Security Returns

Posted: 02 Oct 1996
Jonathan Berk, Richard C. Green and Vasant Naik
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Lehman Brothers International, Europe

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Optimal Investment, Growth Options, and Security Returns

Posted: 17 Aug 1999
Richard C. Green, Jonathan Berk and Vasant Naik
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Lehman Brothers International, Europe

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Citation 9

Sorting Out Sorts

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Jul 1997
Jonathan Berk
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Sorting Out Sorts

NBER Working Paper No. t0235
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2023
Jonathan Berk
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Return Persistence and Fund Flows in the Worst Performing Mutual Funds

NBER Working Paper No. w13042
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2022
Jonathan Berk and Ian Tonks
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Bristol - Department of Finance and Accounting
Downloads 308 (170,608)
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Comment on 'The Virtue of Complexity in Return Prediction'

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 18 Apr 2023
Jonathan Berk
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads 269 (196,150)

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Complexity, Prediction, Machine Learning, Overparameterization, Kelly, Malamud, Zhou

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Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure

NBER Working Paper No. w13014
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2022
Jonathan Berk, Richard Stanton and Josef Zechner
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and Vienna University of Economics and Business
Downloads 243 (216,877)
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Valuation and Return Dynamics of New Ventures

NBER Working Paper No. w6745
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Jan 1999 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2022
Richard C. Green, Jonathan Berk and Vasant Naik
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Lehman Brothers International, Europe
Downloads 226 (232,631)
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Can Boundedly Rational Agents Make Optimal Decisions? A Natural Experiment

Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 2008-7
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2013
Jonathan Berk and Eric N. Hughson
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
Downloads 202 (258,193)
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A Rational Model of the Closed-End Fund Discount

NBER Working Paper No. w10412
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2022
Jonathan Berk and Richard Stanton
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Addendum to Regulation of Charlatans in High-Skill Professions: The Case when Charlatans do Harm

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 23 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2021
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 104 (440,226)
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Charlatans, Regulation, Information Disclosure, Licensing, Competition

A Simple Approach for Deciding When to Invest

NBER Working Paper No. w6678
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2022
Jonathan Berk
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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A Simple Approach for Deciding When to Invest

Posted: 03 Jun 1998
Jonathan Berk
Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Limited Capital Market Participation and Human Capital Risk

NBER Working Paper No. w15709
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2022
Jonathan Berk and Johan Walden
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Finance Group
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Statistical Discrimination in a Competitive Labor Market

NBER Working Paper No. w6871
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Apr 1999 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2022
Jonathan Berk
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Active Managers Are Skilled

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 15-37
Posted: 10 Jun 2015
Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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Managerial Skill Mutual Fund Performance

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The Price is Right, But are the Bids? An Empirical Investigation of Rational Decision Making

Posted: 16 Sep 1999
Jonathan Berk, Kirk E. Vandezande and Eric N. Hughson
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Schulich School of Business and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance

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The Acquisition of Information in a Dynamic Market

Posted: 14 Sep 1999
Jonathan Berk
Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the CAPM

Posted: 07 Sep 1999
Jonathan Berk
Stanford Graduate School of Business

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A Critique of Size Related Anomalies

Posted: 25 Dec 1998
Jonathan Berk
Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Discrimination with Self-Selection

Posted: 12 Apr 1996
Jonathan Berk
Stanford Graduate School of Business

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