Biography
Prior to joining the Goizueta Business School faculty in 2008, Joshua Pollet was an assistant professor of finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a PhD in economics from Harvard University and a BA in economics and mathematics from Emory University. During his four years at the University of Illinois, Pollet taught an investments course for undergraduates as well as a graduate course about the empirical analysis of equity returns. His research has been discussed in several publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Publications

• "Average Correlation and Stock Market Returns," with M. Wilson, Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming).
• “Investor Inattention and Friday Earnings Announcements,” with S. DellaVigna, Journal of Finance (forthcoming). (Formerly titled “Investor Inattention, Firm Reaction, and Friday Earnings Announcements,” NBER WP No. 11683, 2005.)
• “How Does Size Affect Mutual Fund Behavior?” with M. Wilson, Journal of Finance 63 (December 2008): 2941-2969.
• “Demographics and Industry Returns,” with S. DellaVigna, American Economic Review 97 (December 2007): 1667-1702. (Formerly titled “Attention, Demographics, and the Stock Market,” NBER WP No. 11211, 2005.)
• “Estimating Life Tables that Reflect Socioeconomic Differences in Mortality,” with J. Brown and J. Liebman. Essay in The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform, ed. M. Feldstein and J. Liebman, 447-457. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Working Papers

• “Capital Budgeting vs. Market Timing: An Evaluation Using Demographics,” with S. DellaVigna, 2008.
• “The Decision to Go Private,” with B. Becker, 2008.
• “Executive Stock Options with Consumption and Partial Exercise,” with J. White and M. Widdicks, 2006.
• “Predicting Asset Returns with Expected Oil Price Changes,” 2004.

Areas of Specialization

• Asset pricing
• Behavioral finance
• Corporate finance

Professional Memberships and Activities

• American Economic Association
• American Finance Association
• Western Finance Association

Academic Background
PhD, Economics, Harvard University, 2004
BA, Economics (magna cum laude) and Mathematics, Emory University, 1998