• Local Peer Effects and Corporate Investment 

      Bao, Yangming; Goetz, Martin (2018-07-07)
      We examine how a firms' investment behavior affects the investment of a neighboring firm. Economic theory yields ambiguous predictions regarding the direction of firm peer effects and consistent with earlier work, we find ...
    • Peer Effects and Risk Sharing in Experimental Asset Markets 

      Baghestanian, Sascha; Gortner, Paul J.; van der Weele, Joël J. (2015-02-02)
      Previous research has documented strong peer effects in risk taking, but little is known about how such social influences affect market outcomes. Since the consequences of social interactions are hard to isolate in financial ...