Noah Stoffman Associate Professor of Finance & Weimer Faculty Fellow Kelley School of Business, Indiana University   @stoffprof         +1 (812) 856-5664

Curriculum Vitae

Research

Publications

1. Unlocking Clients: The Importance of Relationships in the Financial Advisory Industry (with Umit Gurun and Scott Yonker). Journal of Financial Economics, 2021. [SSRN]
2. Friends with Bankruptcy Protection Benefits (with Kristoph Kleiner and Scott Yonker). Journal of Financial Economics, 2021. [SSRN]
3. Left Behind: Creative Destruction, Inequality, and the Stock Market (with Leonid Kogan and Dimitris Papanikolaou). Journal of Political Economy, 2020. [SSRN]
4. Do Shocks to Personal Wealth Affect Risk Taking in Delegated Portfolios? (with Veronika Pool, Scott Yonker, and Hanjiang Zhang). Review of Financial Studies, 2019. [SSRN]
5. Trust Busting: The Effect of Fraud on Investor Behavior (with Umit Gurun and Scott Yonker). Review of Financial Studies, 2018. [SSRN]
   • Wharton–WRDS Award for the Best Empirical Finance Paper, Western Finance Association, 2016
   • Best paper award, Ohio State Finance Department Alumni Conference, 2017
   • Summarized on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
   • Media mentions: Business Insider, Bloomberg BNA
6. Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation and Growth (with Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Amit Seru). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017. [SSRN] [Code and Data]
   • Winner of the PanAgora Crowell Prize (second place), 2013
   • Media mentions: AEIdeas
7. The People in Your Neighborhood: Social Interactions and Mutual Fund Portfolios (with Veronika Pool and Scott Yonker). Journal of Finance, 2015. [SSRN] [Web appendix]
   • Media mentions: Wall Street Journal, LSE Business Review
8. Who Trades With Whom? Individuals, Institutions, and Returns. Journal of Financial Markets, 2014. [SSRN]
9. No Place Like Home: Familiarity in Mutual Fund Manager Portfolio Choice (with Veronika Pool and Scott Yonker). Review of Financial Studies, 2012. [SSRN] [Web appendix]
   • Media mentions: MarketWatch, Businessweek, SmartMoney, Treasury & Risk magazine
10. Learning By Trading (with Amit Seru and Tyler Shumway). Review of Financial Studies, 2010. [SSRN]

Working papers

11. Small Innovators: No Risk, No Return (with Michael Woeppel and Deniz Yavuz)

Code and Data

• Patent data:
  • Patent data updated to 2020
  • If you want to replicate the results of KPSS (2017), see this replication kit
  • Mike Woeppel has some additional cleaned data from USPTO
• I have posted some SAS code to estimate regressions with Fama-Macbeth, clustered standard errors, or fixed effects in SAS. This code complements the Stata code available on Mitchell Petersen's Programming Advice page.
• SAS code to estimate PIN (as in Easley, Kiefer, O'Hara & Paperman, 1996, Journal of Finance).