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
- MBA, 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, 31 (1), 362-397. January, 2018.
“Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns.” (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.