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Overview

Meir Statman is affiliated with Santa Clara University in the United States and specializes primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. The research focuses extensively on finance, accounting, economics and econometrics, strategy and management, and social psychology. Statman's work notably intersects several topics including financial markets and investment strategies, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, housing market economics, corporate social responsibility reporting, sustainable finance and green bonds, as well as psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

Statman has contributed to various academic journals and publication venues. Frequent venues for their work include The Journal of Portfolio Management, the SSRN Electronic Journal, the Review of Behavioral Finance, the Financial Analysts Journal, and The Journal of Wealth Management, with multiple papers appearing in these respected outlets.

Notable recent publications by Statman cover a range of subjects within behavioral finance and investment strategies. These include:

  • "ESG as Waving Banners and as Pulling Plows," 2020, The Journal of Portfolio Management
  • "A Wealth of Well-Being: A Holistic Approach to Behavioral Finance," 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "My way to the second generation of behavioral finance," 2020, Review of Behavioral Finance
  • "Well-Being Advisers," 2020, The Journal of Wealth Management
  • "Harry Markowitz's Two Intellectual Children: Mean-Variance and Behavioral Portfolio Theories," 2024, The Journal of Portfolio Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Statman include Patrícia de Souza Costa and Sharon Hill, each of whom has worked with Statman on at least one publication. This reflects a collaborative approach within the behavioral finance research community.

The focus of Statman's research spans across behavioral dimensions in finance, considering psychological well-being alongside market behavior. This approach includes engaging with sustainable finance topics such as environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria as well as exploring the holistic aspects of wealth and well-being in financial decision-making.

Best Publications

  • The Disposition to Sell Winners Too Early and Ride Losers Too Long: Theory and Evidence

    Hersh Shefrin;Meir Statman

  • Behavioral Portfolio Theory

    Hersh Shefrin;Meir Statman

  • Doing Well While Doing Good? The Investment Performance of Socially Responsible Mutual Funds

    Sally Hamilton;Hoje Jo;Meir Statman

  • Investor Overconfidence and Trading Volume

    Meir Statman;Steven Thorley;Keith Vorkink

  • Explaining investor preference for cash dividends

    Hersh M. Shefrin;Meir Statman

  • Investor Sentiment and Stock Returns

    Kenneth L. Fisher;Meir Statman

  • Behavioral Capital Asset Pricing Theory

    Hersh Shefrin;Meir Statman

  • How Many Stocks Make a Diversified Portfolio

    Meir Statman

  • The Disposition to Sell Winners Too Early and Ride Losers Too Long: Theory and Evidence

    Unknown

  • The Wages of Social Responsibility

    Unknown

  • Consumer Confidence and Stock Returns

    Kenneth L. Fisher;Meir Statman

  • Socially Responsible Mutual Funds (corrected)

    Unknown

  • Portfolio Optimization with Mental Accounts

    Sanjiv Das;Harry Markowitz;Jonathan Scheid;Meir Statman

  • Socially Responsible Indexes

    Meir Statman

  • Behaviorial Finance: Past Battles and Future Engagements

    Unknown

  • Affect in a Behavioral Asset-Pricing Model

    Meir Statman;Kenneth L. Fisher;Deniz Anginer

  • Making Sense of Beta, Size, and Book-to-Market

    Hersh Shefrin;Meir Statman

  • Behavioral aspects of the design and marketing of financial products

    Hersh Shefrin;Meir Statman

  • Why Do Countries Matter so Much in Corporate Social Performance

    Ye Cai;Carrie H. Pan;Meir Statman

  • The Diversification Puzzle

    Unknown

  • How Useful is the Sentiment Index

    Unknown

  • Tracking Errors, Regret, and Tactical Asset Allocation

    Roger G. Clarke;Scott Krase;Meir Statman

  • Do Corporations Invest Enough in Environmental Responsibility

    Yongtae Kim;Meir Statman

  • Lottery Players/Stock Traders

    Meir Statman

  • Behavioral finance: Finance with normal people

    Meir Statman

  • The Wages of Social Responsibility

    Meir Statman;Denys Glushkov

Frequent Co-Authors

Sanjiv Ranjan Das
Sanjiv Ranjan Das Santa Clara University
Kees C. G. Koedijk
Kees C. G. Koedijk Utrecht University
Harry M. Markowitz
Harry M. Markowitz University of California, San Diego
Hoje Jo
Hoje Jo Santa Clara University
Mark Wooden
Mark Wooden University of Melbourne
Aldo Rustichini
Aldo Rustichini University of Minnesota

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