Faculty Directory
David Solomon
Professor
Giuriceo Family Faculty Fellow
David Solomon
Contact
Fulton Hall 360D
Telephone: 617-552-8245
Email: david.solomon@bc.edu
Education
- B.Com., University of Western Australia
- M.B.A., University of Chicago
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
Expertise
- Valuation, Asset Pricing, and Financial Statement Analysis
- Behavioral Finance
Department
Selected Appointments and Awards
- Fama/DFA Prize for the Best Paper in the Journal of Financial Economics on Capital Markets and Asset Pricing, 2015, for “Juicing the Dividend Yield: Mutual Funds and the Demand for Dividends.” (Second Place).
- Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award 2015, for “Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns.” (First Place).
- Best Paper, California Corporate Finance Conference 2015 for “Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns”
- USC Marshall Dean’s Award for Research Excellence, 2015.
- Best Paper, Financial Research Association Conference 2012 for “What are we meeting for? The consequences of private meetings with investors”
- Best Paper, California Corporate Finance Conference 2011 for “The Dividend Month Premium”
Selected Publications
- “Rolling Mental Accounts” (with Samuel M. Hartzmark, and Cary Frydma) Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.
- “Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns” (with with Tom Y. Chang, Samuel M. Hartzmark, and Eugene F. Soltes) Review of Financial Studies, 30 (1), 281-323, January 2017.
- “Looking for Someone to Blame: Delegation, Cognitive Dissonance and the Disposition Effect” (with Tom Y. Chang and Mark M. Westerfield) Journal of Finance, 71 (1), 267-302, February 2016.
- “What Are We Meeting For? The Consequences of Private Meetings with Investors” (with Eugene Soltes) Journal of Law and Economics, 58 (2), 325-355, May 2015.
- “Juicing the Dividend Yield: Mutual Funds and the Demand for Dividends” (with Lawrence Harris and Samuel M Hartzmark) Journal of Financial Economics, 116 (3), 433-451, June 2015.
- “Winners in the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Fund Holdings as a Driver of Flows” (with Eugene Soltes and Denis Sosyura) Journal of Financial Economics, 113 (1), 53-72, July 2014.
- “The Dividend Month Premium’ (with Samuel M. Hartzmark) Journal of Financial Economics, 109 (3), 640-660, September 2013.
- “Selective Publicity and Stock Prices”, Journal of Finance 67 (2), 599-637, April 2012.
- “Efficiency and the Disposition Effect in NFL Prediction Markets” (with Samuel M. Hartzmark) Quarterly Journal of Finance, 2 (3), 12500, September 2012.
- “A Multinomial Approximation of American Option Prices in Levy Process Models” (with Ross A. Maller and Alex Szimayer) Mathematical Finance, 16 (4), 613-633, October 2006.