Scott Weisbenner

 

 

Associate Professor of Finance University of Illinois (with tenure, on leave) & James F. Towey Faculty Fellow

Research Associate NBER

Editor, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (starting January 2010)
 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Finance

340 Wohlers Hall, MC-706

1206 South Sixth Street

Champaign, IL  61820

Phone: (217) 333-0872
Fax: (217) 244-9867
E-mail: weisbenn@illinois.edu

 

 

 

 

Research by Area:

 

 

 

 

INVESTMENTS

 

 

Citation Count

 

ISI Web of Science (citations in published, refereed journals listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index) = 72 (as of October 2009)

 

Google Scholar (citations in published, forthcoming, and working papers) = 466 (as of October 2009)

 

 

Journal Publications & Forthcoming Papers*

 

“Individual Investor Mutual Fund Flows,” (with Zoran Ivković), Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 92, No. 2, 2009, p. 223-237.

 

“Portfolio Concentration and the Performance of Individual Investors,” (with Zoran Ivković and Clemens Sialm), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2008, p. 613-656.

 

“Neighbors Matter:  Causal Community Effects and Stock Market Participation,” (with Jeffrey R. Brown, Zoran Ivković, and Paul A. Smith), Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, No. 3, 2008, p. 1509-1531.

 

“Information Diffusion Effects in Individual Investors’ Common Stock Purchases:  Covet Thy Neighbors’ Investment Choices,” (with Zoran Ivković), Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2007, p. 1327-1357.

 

“Local Does as Local Is:  Information Content of the Geography of Individual Investors’ Common Stock Investments,” (with Zoran Ivković), Journal of Finance, Vol. 60, No. 1, 2005, p. 267-306.

   

“Capital Gains Tax Rules, Tax-Loss Trading, and Turn-of-the-Year Returns,” (with James M. Poterba), Journal of Finance, Vol. 56, No. 1, 2001, p. 353-368.

 

 

 

 

Corporate Finance

 

 

Citation Count

 

ISI Web of Science (citations in published, refereed journals listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index) = 57 (as of October 2009)

 

Google Scholar (citations in published, forthcoming, and working papers) = 205 (as of October 2009)

 

 

Journal Publications & Forthcoming Papers*

 

“Executive Financial Incentives and Payout Policy:  Firm Responses to the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut,” (with Jeffrey R. Brown and Nellie Liang), Journal of Finance, Vol. 62, No. 4, 2007, p. 1935-1965.

 

 

Papers Under Review / Working Papers

 

“Corporate Debt Maturity and the Real Effects of the 2007 Credit Crisis,” (with Heitor Almeida, Murillo Campello, and Bruno Laranjeira), 2009.  Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Financial Studies.

 

“Local Dividend Clienteles,” (with Bo Becker and Zoran Ivković), 2009.  Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Finance.

 

“Who Benefits from a Bull Market?  An Analysis of Employee Stock Option Grants and Stock Prices,” (with Nellie Liang), FEDS Working Paper 2001-57.

 

“Corporate Share Repurchases in the 1990s:  What Role Do Stock Options Play?,” FEDS Working Paper 2000-29.

 

 

Work in Progress

 

“Endowment Fund Boards and Performance,” (with Jeffrey R. Brown, Stephen G. Dimmock, and Jun-Koo Kang), 2009.

 

 

 

 

Public Policy and Finance

 

 

Citation Count

 

ISI Web of Science (citations in published, refereed journals listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index) = 65 (as of October 2009)

 

Google Scholar (citations in published, forthcoming, and working papers) = 337 (as of October 2009)

 

 

Journal Publications & Forthcoming Papers*

 

“The Effect of Inheritance Receipt on Retirement Decisions,” (with Jeffrey R. Brown and Courtney Coile), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, forthcoming.

 

“Individual Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice:  Behavioral Lessons from 401(k) Plans,” (with Jeffrey R. Brown and Nellie Liang), Journal of Public Economics., Vol. 91, 2007, p. 1992-2013.

 

“401(k) Matching Contributions in Company Stock – Costs and Benefits for Firms and Workers,” (with Jeffrey R. Brown and Nellie Liang), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 90, 2006, p. 1315-1346.

 

“Tax-Motivated Trading by Individual Investors,” (with Zoran Ivković and Jim Poterba), American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 5, 2005, p. 1605-1630.

 

“Inter-Asset Differences in Effective Estate Tax Burdens,” (with James M. Poterba), American Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 2, 2003, p. 360-365.

 

“Do Pension Plans with Participant Investment Choice Teach Households to Hold More Equity?,” Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2002, p. 223-248.

 

 

Publications in Books

 

“Who Chooses Defined Contribution Plans,” (with Jeffrey R. Brown), Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment, edited by Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey B. Liebman, and David A. Wise, University of Chicago Press, 2009, 131-161.

 

“Intergenerational Transfers and Savings Behavior,” (with Jeffrey R. Brown), Perspectives on the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise, University of Chicago Press, 2004, 181-201.

 

“The Distributional Burden of Taxing Estates and Unrealized Capital Gains at Death,” (with James M. Poterba), Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation, edited by William G. Gale, James R. Hines, and Joel Slemrod, Brookings Institution, 2001, 422-449.

 

 

Work in Progress

 

“The Investment Behavior of State Pension Plans,” (with Jeffrey R. Brown and Joshua Pollet), 2009.

 

“Why I Lost My Secretary: The Effect of Endowment Investment Policy on Real University Decisions,” (with Jeffrey R. Brown, Stephen G. Dimmock, and Jun-Koo Kang), 2009.

 

“Cash Now or More Cash Later:  An Analysis of Retiree Debt Repayment Choices in Croatia,” (with Jeffrey R. Brown and Zoran Ivković), 2009.

 

 

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