Alok Kumar

Employment

• University of Miami Professor of Finance
  2010 - Present

Education

• Cornell University Ph.D.
  2001 - 2003

Projects & Funding

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Publications (64)

• Do Hedge Fund Managers Understand Politics? Political Sensitivity and Investment Skill
  Journal of Banking & Finance 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2021.106371
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• Dividend sentiment, catering incentives, and return predictability
  Journal of Corporate Finance 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2021.102128
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• Terrorist Attacks, Analyst Sentiment, and Earnings Forecasts
  Management Science 2021 DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2019.3575
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• Heterogeneous beliefs and return volatility around seasoned equity offerings
  Journal of Financial Economics 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.03.003
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• Searching for Gambles: Gambling Sentiment and Stock Market Outcomes
  Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 2020 DOI: 10.1017/s0022109020000496
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• Predicting hedge fund performance when fund returns are skewed
  Financial Management 2020 DOI: 10.1111/fima.12304
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• Prozac for depressed states? Effect of mood on local economic recessions
  Review of Financial Economics 2020 DOI: 10.1002/rfe.1099
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• Big fish in a small pond: Locally dominant firms and the business cycle
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.10.004
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• Income Hedging, Dynamic Style Preferences, and Return Predictability
  The Journal of Finance 2019 DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12775
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• An analyst by any other surname: Surname favorability and market reaction to analyst forecasts
  Journal of Accounting and Economics 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2019.02.002
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