Terrance Odean is the Willis H. Booth Professor of Banking and Finance at the Haas School of Business
at the University of California, Berkeley. Odean originally studied creative writing at Carleton College, dropping out one semester shy of earning a degree. At age 37 he applied at UC Berkeley, and was admitted if he agreed to study statistics. Odean considered pursuing psychology for his doctorate, but Daniel Kahneman convinced him to get a Ph.D. in finance, studying investor behavior.[1]
Papers
Odean received a 2000 Graham & Dodd Scroll award[2] as coauthor of the paper, Too Many Cooks Spoil the Profits: Investment Club Performance.[3] . Odean received a 1999 Roger F. Murray Prize[4] for the paper, The Courage of Misguided Convictions: The Trading Behavior of Individual Investors.[5] Both papers were coauthored with Odean's frequent collaborator, Brad Barber.
Odean is the author/coauthor of the following most cited works, listed from most to least cited.
Year
Study
1998
Are investors reluctant to realize their losses?[6]
1998
The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors[7]
2001
Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment[8]
2008
All that glitters: The effect of attention and news on the buying behavior of individual and institutional investors[9]
↑Barber, Brad M.; Odean, Terrance (January 2002). Online Investors: Do the Slow Die First?. Review of Financial Studies Volume 15 (2): Oxford University Press. pp. 455–488.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) CS1 maint: location (link)
↑Barber, Brad M.; Odean, Terrance, Zhu, Ning (November 2009). Systematic Noise. Journal of Financial Markets Volume 12 (4): North-Holland. pp. 547–569.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) CS1 maint: location (link)
