2026 Brad M. Barber: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	59	836	753	520	458	128	56372

Research.com Recognitions

Fellow of the Financial Management Association
Fellow of the Financial Management Association
Fellow of the Financial Management Association

Overview

Brad M. Barber is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Business, Management and Accounting.

Their work includes a strong focus on subfields such as Finance, Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, and Management Science and Operations Research. Core topics addressed in their research encompass Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Housing Market and Economics, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Corporate Finance and Governance, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recent publications by Brad M. Barber include:

Impact investing (2020) in Journal of Financial Economics
Attention-Induced Trading and Returns: Evidence from Robinhood Users (2022) in The Journal of Finance
Attention Induced Trading and Returns: Evidence from Robinhood Users (2020) in SSRN Electronic Journal
A (Sub)penny For Your Thoughts: Tracking Retail Investor Activity in TAQ (2022) in SSRN Electronic Journal
What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity during the Pandemic? (2021) in The Journal of Finance

Their frequent co-authors include:

Terrance Odean
Christopher G. Schwarz
Philippe Jorion
Adair Morse
Ayako Yasuda

Barber's work has been published extensively in venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Journal of Finance
Journal of Financial Economics
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
European Finance Review

Barber has been recognized as a Fellow of the Financial Management Association.

Best Publications

Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment

Brad M. Barber;Terrance Odean

8272
Citations
All That Glitters: The Effect of Attention and News on the Buying Behavior of Individual and Institutional Investors

Brad M. Barber;Terrance Odean

6782
Citations
Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth : The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors

Brad M. Barber;Terrance Odean

6093
Citations
Detecting long-run abnormal stock returns: The empirical power and specification of test statistics

Brad M. Barber;John D. Lyon

4514
Citations
Improved Methods for Tests of Long-Run Abnormal Stock Returns

John D. Lyon;Brad M. Barber;Chih-Ling Tsai

2742
Citations
Detecting abnormal operating performance: The empirical power and specification of test statistics

Brad M. Barber;John D. Lyon

2626
Citations
Can Investors Profit from the Prophets? Security Analyst Recommendations and Stock Returns

Brad Barber;Reuven Lehavy;Brett Trueman

1773
Citations
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Effects of Expenses on Mutual Fund Flows*

Brad M. Barber;Terrance Odean;Lu Zheng

1551
Citations
Online Investors: Do the Slow Die First?

Brad M. Barber;Terrance Odean

1262
Citations
Do Retail Trades Move Markets

Brad M. Barber;Terrance Odean;Ning Zhu

1118
Citations
Just How Much Do Individual Investors Lose by Trading

Brad M. Barber;Yi-Tsung Lee;Yu-Jane Liu

1090
Citations
The Behavior of Individual Investors

Brad Barber;Terrance Odean

1012
Citations
The Behavior of Individual Investors

Brad M. Barber;Terrance Odean

1010
Citations
Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors

Brad M. Barber;Terrance Odean

948
Citations
All that Glitters: The Effect of Attention and News on the Buying Behavior of Individual and Institutional Investors

Brad M. Barber;Terrance Odean

818
Citations
Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment

Brad M. Barber;Terrance Odean

781
Citations
The Internet and the Investor

Brad M. Barber;Terrance Odean

711
Citations
Firm size, book-to-market ratio, and security returns: a holdout sample of financial firms

Bead M. Barber;John D. Lyon

639
Citations
Comparing the stock recommendation performance of investment banks and independent research firms.

Brad M. Barber;Reuven Lehavy;Brett Trueman

609
Citations
Which Factors Matter to Investors? Evidence from Mutual Fund Flows

Brad M. Barber;Xing Huang;Terrance Odean

604
Citations
Impact investing

Unknown

587
Citations
Improved Methods for Tests of Long-Run Abnormal Stock Returns

Brad M. Barber;Chih-Ling Tsai

558
Citations
Buys, holds, and sells: The distribution of investment banks¿ stock ratings and the implications for the profitability of analysts¿ recommendations

Brad M. Barber;Reuven Lehavy;Maureen McNichols;Brett Trueman

552
Citations
Challengers, Elites, and Owning Families: A Social Class Theory of Corporate Acquisitions in the 1960s

Donald Palmer;Brad M. Barber

466
Citations
Just How Much Do Individual Investors Lose By Trading

Brad M. Barber;Yi-Tsung Lee;Yu-Jane Liu;Terrance Odean

198
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Terrance Odean University of California, Berkeley

Maureen F. McNichols Stanford University

Manju Puri Duke University

Teck-Hua Ho Nanyang Technological University

Jarrad Harford University of Washington

John Y. Campbell Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of Brad M. Barber

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