Faculty Area
Interdisciplinary Theme
- Behavioral Economics and Decision Research
- Investing@Cornell
Faculty Expertise
- Behavioral Finance
- Empirical Asset Pricing
- Household Finance
- Portfolio Choice
- Climate Finance
Contact
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
607.254.8308
Website
Biography
Jawad M. Addoum is an associate professor of finance in the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. Professor Addoum's research focuses on portfolio choice, empirical asset pricing, and behavioral finance. His current work examines the determinants of investment decision-making among individual and institutional investors, as well as the effects of investor behavior on stock returns. Professor Addoum's research also contributes to the emerging field of climate finance and has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Management Science.
Professor Addoum earned a PhD in finance at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He completed his undergraduate degree in mathematics and statistics at the University of Waterloo, where he was awarded Dean's Honors. He also holds an undergraduate degree in finance from the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he was a President's Centennial Scholar.
Selected Publications
- Addoum, Jawad; Murfin, Justin. "Equity Price Discovery with Informed Private Debt"Review of Financial Studies. 33.8 (2020): 3766-3803
- Addoum, Jawad; Kumar, Alok; Le, Nhan; Niessen-Ruenzi, Alexandra. "Local Bankruptcy and Geographic Contagion in the Bank Loan Market"Review of Finance. 24.5 (2020): 997-1037
- Addoum, Jawad; Ng, David; Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel. "Temperature Shocks and Establishment Sales"Review of Financial Studies. 33.3 (2020): 1331-1366
- Addoum, Jawad; Delikouras, Stefanos; Ke, Da; Kumar, Alok. "Underreaction to Political Information and Price Momentum"Financial Management. 48.3 (2019): 773-804
- Addoum, Jawad; Delikouras, Stefanos; Korniotis, George; Kumar, Alok. "Income Hedging, Dynamic Style Preferences, and Return Predictability"Journal of Finance. 74.4 (2019): 2055-2106
- Addoum, Jawad; Delikouras, Stefanos; Korniotis, George. "Consumption-Income Sensitivity and Portfolio Choice"Review of Asset Pricing Studies. 9.1 (2019): 91-136
- Addoum, Jawad. "Household Portfolio Choice and Retirement"Review of Economics and Statistics. 99.5 (2017): 870-883
- Addoum, Jawad; Korniotis, George; Kumar, Alok. "Stature, Obesity, and Portfolio Choice"Management Science. 63.10 (2017): 3393–3413
- Addoum, Jawad; Kumar, Alok. "Political Sentiment and Predictable Returns"Review of Financial Studies. 29.12 (2016): 3471-3518
Recent Courses
- AEM 4570 - Corporate Finance
- AEM 2240 - Finance for Dyson Majors
Academic Degrees
- PhD Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 2012
- BS University of Waterloo, 2007
- BBA Wilfrid Laurier University, 2007