Professor of Economics
email: john.gathergood at nottingham.ac.uk
Working Papers
At the Top of the Mind: Peak Prices and the Disposition Effect (with David Hume, George Loewenstein, Edika Quispe-Torreblanca and Neil Stewart
Revise and resubmit, JPE Micro
Attention Utility: Evidence From Individual Investors (with George Loewenstein, Edika Quispe-Torreblanca and Neil Stewart) CESifo Working Paper #8901
Revised and resubmitted, Review of Economic Studies. New version May 2024.
How Preferences for Round Numbers Affect Choices: Stickiness and Jumpiness in Credit Card Payments (with Hiro Sakaguchi and Neil Stewart)
Revise and resubmitted (2nd round), Management Science
Preventing Payments Fraud in the FinTech Era: New Evidence from a Behavioural Experiment (with Jesper Akesson and Edika Quispe-Torreblanca)
Does Pension Automatic Enrollment Increase Debt? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment (with John Beshears, Matthew Blakstad, James J. Choi, Chris Firth, David Laibson, Richard Notley, Jesal D. Sheth, Will Sandbrook and Neil Stewart) NBER Working Paper #32100. NBER Digest
The Limits of Nudge: Evidence from Online Property Listings (with David Hume and Neil Stewart)
Recently Accepted / Published
Digital Engagement Practices: A Trading Apps Experiment (with C. Gilchrist, L. Hayes, D. Karapetyan, S. O'Neill and N. Stewart)
Financial Conduct Authority Research Note, 2024
The Co-holding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data (with A.Olafsson)
Forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies, 2024
Investor Logins and the Disposition Effect (with G. Loewenstein, E. Quispe-Torreblanca and N. Stewart)
Forthcoming, Management Science 2024
Does Homeownership Reduce Crime? A Radical Housing Reform in the UK (with R. Disney, S. Machin and M. Sandi)
Economic Journal, 133: 2640-2675, 2023
Naive Buying Diversification and Narrow Framing by Individual Investors (with D. Hirshleifer, D. Leake, H. Sakaguchi and N. Stewart)
Journal of Finance, 78: 1705-1741, 2023