Retail investors lose big in options markets, research shows
Retail investors are playing an outsized role in options markets. New research sheds light on how their behavior affects prices — and how much investors stand to lose.
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Eric So is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Financial Economics and a Professor in the Economics, Finance, and Accounting Area of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His research interests include equity valuation, asset pricing, option markets, security analysts, and limits to arbitrage with a focus on the forces and mechanisms that shape the information content of market prices.
He holds an MA in economics from Cornell University and a PhD in business administration from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Prior to completing his PhD, So worked as a research analyst at the Nasdaq Stock Market in the Economic Research department.
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Guest, Nicholas, M., S.P. Kothari, and Eric C. So. Management Science. Forthcoming.
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Noh, Suzie, Eric C. So, and Christina Zhu, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6560-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2022.
Kothari, S.P., Travis L. Johnson, and Eric C. So, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6559-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2021.
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