Ronnie Sadka, PhD

Haub Family Professor of Finance

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty

Finance Department Chairperson

Boston College, Carroll School of Management

560c Fulton Hall

140 Commonwealth Ave.

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: (617) 552-0899 Fax: (617) 552-0431

Email: sadka@bc.edu 

Bio

CV

Liquidity factors 1983-2012

Publications

1. Fed members’ monetary tones and yields, (with Musa Amadeus, Rajeev Bhargava, Michael Guidi, Marvin Loh, and Gideon Ozik), Journal of Fixed Income, forthcoming.

2. Quantifying narratives and their impact on financial markets (with Rajeev Bhargava, Xiaoxia Lou, Gideon Ozik, and Travis Whitmore), Journal of Portfolio Management, 49 (5), 2023, 82–95.

3. Central bank monetary tones and yields (with Musa Amadeus, Rajeev Bhargava, Time Graf, Michael Guidi, Michael Metcalfe, and Gideon Ozik), Journal of Fixed Income 31 (4), Spring 2022, 5-19.

4. Competition links and stock returns (with Assaf Eisdorfer, Ken Froot, and Gideon Ozik), Review of Financial Studies 35 (9), September 2022, 4300–4340.

5. Predicting performance using consumer big data (with Ken Froot, Namho Kang, and Gideon Ozik), Journal of Portfolio Management 48 (3), February 2022, 47–61.

6. Flattening the illiquidity curve: Retail trading during the COVID-19 lockdown (with Gideon Ozik and Siyi Shen), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 56, November 2021, 2356–2388.

7. Maturity driven mispricing of options (with Assaf Eisdorfer and Alexei Zhdanov), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 57, March 2022, 514–542.

8. Illiquidity and price informativeness (with Jon N. Kerr and Gil Sadka), Management Science 66, January 2020, 334–351.

9. Liquidity risk and mutual fund performance (with Xi Dong and Shu Feng), Management Science 65, March 2019, 1020–1041.

10. Investor protection and the long-run performance of activism (with Pouyan Foroughi, Namho Kang, and Gideon Ozik), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 54, February 2019, 61–100.

11. Short-horizon Beta or long-horizon Alpha? (with Avraham Kamara, Robert A. Korajczyk, and Xiaoxia Lou), Journal of Portfolio Management 45, Fall 2018, 96-105.

12. What do measures of real-time corporate sales tell us about earnings management, surprises and post-announcement drift? (with Ken Froot, Namho Kang, and Gideon Ozik), Journal of Financial Economics 125, June 2017, 143-162.

13. Horizon pricing (with Avraham Kamara, Robert A. Korajczyk, and Xiaoxia Lou), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 51, December 2016, 1769-1793.

14. Invisible Costs and Profitability (with Xiaoxia Lou), Portfolio Construction, Measurement, and Efficiency: Essays in Honor of Jack Treynor, Springer 2016.

15. Skin in the game versus skimming the game: Governance, share restrictions, and insider flow (with Gideon Ozik), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 50, December 2015, 1293–1319.

16. Do hedge funds reduce idiosyncratic risk? (with Namho Kang and Peter Kondor), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 49, August 2014, 843–877.

17. Asset class liquidity risk, Bankers, Markets & Investors 128, January-February 2014, 19-29.

18. Big data and information edge (with Gideon Ozik), Hedge Funds Review, December 2013/January 2014, 32-34.

19. Media coverage and hedge-fund returns (with Gideon Ozik), Financial Analysts Journal 69, May/June 2013, 57-75.

20. Hedge-fund performance and liquidity risk, Journal of Investment Management 10, April 2012, 60-72.

21. Liquidity risk and accounting information, Journal of Accounting and Economics 52, November 2011, 144-152.

22. Liquidity level or liquidity risk? Evidence from the financial crisis (with Xiaoxia Lou), Financial Analysts Journal 67, May/June 2011, 51-62.

23. Are you trading predictably? (with Steven L. Heston, Robert A. Korajczyk, and Lewis D. Thorson), Financial Analysts Journal 67, March/April 2011, 36-44.

24. Seasonality in the cross-section of stock returns: The international evidence (with Steven L. Heston), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 45, October 2010, 1133-1160.

25. Liquidity risk and the cross-section of hedge-fund returns, Journal of Financial Economics 98, October 2010, 54-71.

26. Intraday patterns in the cross-section of stock returns (with Steven L. Heston and Robert A. Korajczyk), Journal of Finance 65, August 2010, 1369-1407.

27. Has the US stock market become more vulnerable over time? (with Avraham Kamara and Xiaoxia Lou), Financial Analysts Journal 66, January/February 2010, 41-52.

28. Mispricing and costly arbitrage (with Anna Scherbina), Journal of Investment Management 8, 2010, 87-99.

29. Aggregate earnings and asset prices (with Ray Ball and Gil Sadka), Journal of Accounting Research 47, 2009, 1097-1133.

30. Predictability and the earnings-returns relation (with Gil Sadka), Journal of Financial Economics 94, 2009, 87-106.

31. Liquidity and the post-earnings-announcement drift (with Tarun Chordia, Amit Goyal, Gil Sadka, and Lakshmanan Shivakumar), Financial Analysts Journal 65, July/August 2009, 18-32.

32. The divergence of liquidity commonality in the cross-section of stocks (with Avraham Kamara and Xiaoxia Lou), Journal of Financial Economics 89, October 2008, 444-466.

33. Seasonality in the cross-section of stock returns (with Steven L. Heston), Journal of Financial Economics 87, February 2008, 418-445.

34. Pricing the commonality across alternative measures of liquidity (with Robert A. Korajczyk), Journal of Financial Economics 87, January 2008, 45-72.

35. Analyst Disagreement, mispricing, and liquidity (with Anna Scherbina), Journal of Finance 62, October 2007, 2367-2403.

36. Momentum and post-earnings-announcement drift anomalies: The role of liquidity risk, Journal of Financial Economics 80, May 2006, 309-349.

37. Are momentum profits robust to trading costs? (with Robert A. Korajczyk), Journal of Finance 59, June 2004, 1039-1082.

38. Weighted Euclidean centers (with Ami Arbel), Optimization 54, June 2005, 239-251 (M.Sc. thesis).

Working papers

1. Narrative Momentum (with Hojoon Lee, Xiaoxia Lou, and Gideon Ozik)

2. Competition Management in Corporate Filings (with Assaf Eisdorfer and Gideon Ozik) 

3. A market-based measure of environment friendly firms (with Assaf Eisdorfer, Xiaoxia Lou, and Gideon Ozik)

4. Innocuous noise? Social media and asset prices (Xiaoxia Lou, Gideon Ozik, and Siyi Shen)

5. A comprehensive analysis of the earnings-returns relation over time (with Gil Sadka and Ayung Tseng)

6. Media reinforcement in international financial markets (with Ken Froot, Xiaoxia Lou, Gideon Ozik, and Siyi Shen)

7. Liquidity-driven volume and the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle (with Siyi Shen)

8. Executive compensation convexity and firm crash risk (with Musa Amadeus)

9. Implied cost of capital in the cross-section of stocks (with Namho Kang)

10. On the predictability of analyst-forecast errors and the post-earnings-announcement drift (with Xiaoxia Lou, Yaniv Konchitchki, and Gil Sadka)

11. Smart money or smart about money? Evidence from hedge funds (with Gideon Ozik)

12. Does recognition explain the media-coverage discount? Contrary evidence from hedge funds (with Gideon Ozik)

13. Can liquidity explain the low-short-interest puzzle? Implications from the options market (with Jefferson Duarte and Xiaoxia Lou)

14. How fundamental is the pricing of liquidity? Evidence from Bolsa and Börse, 1902-1925 (with Lyndon Moore)

15. Measuring the actions of liquidity providers