Cameron Peng
Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, LSE
Research Affiliate, CEPR
Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Finance, Household Finance
Click here for a recent CV.
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Working Papers
"Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field," with Zhengyang Jiang, Hongqi Liu, and Hongjun Yan
"Reaching for Yield: Evidence from Households," with Francisco Gomes, Oksana Smirnova, and Ning Zhu
"The Inference-Forecast Gap in Belief Updating," with Tony Fan and Yucheng Liang (Experimental Instructions)
"Factor Demand and Factor Returns," with Chen Wang
CFAM-ARX Paper Award, Finance Down Under Conference, 2022
"The Law of Small Numbers in Financial Markets: Theory and Evidence," with Lawrence Jin
Publications
"Taming the Bias Zoo," with Hongqi Liu, Wei A. Xiong, and Wei Xiong (2022), Journal of Financial Economics 143, 716–741.
CFRC Best Paper Award, 2021
Click here for an excellent article by Alex Chinco on how surveys can be used to differentiate multiple explanations targeted at the same anomaly
"Extrapolative Bubbles and Trading Volume," with Jingchi Liao and Ning Zhu (2022), Review of Financial Studies 35, 1682–1722.
"Asset Complexity and the Return Gap," with Paul Gao, Allen Hu, Peter Kelly, and Ning Zhu (2024), Review of Finance 28, 511-550.
"Personality Differences and Investment Decision-Making," with Zhengyang Jiang and Hongjun Yan (2024), Journal of Financial Economics 153, 103776.
Summary: BC Center for Retirement Research
Media coverage: Yahoo Finance, The Wall Street Journal, Kellogg Insight, Manager Magazin
"The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach," with Ran Gu and Weilong Zhang (2024), Forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies.