Professor of Economics

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email: john.gathergood at nottingham.ac.uk


Working Papers

Human Capital from Childhood Exposure to Homeownership: Evidence from Right-to-Buy (with Richard Disney, Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi)
CEP Working Paper #2065. CESifo Working Paper #11582, IZA Discussion Paper #17633

Submitted. This version December 2024.

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

Submitted. This version October 2024.

The Limits of Nudge: Evidence from Online Property Listings (with David Hume and Neil Stewart

Submitted. This version August 2024.

Preventing Payments Fraud in the FinTech Era: New Evidence from a Behavioural Experiment (with Jesper Akesson and Edika Quispe-Torreblanca)

Submitted. This version August 2024.


Recently Accepted / Published

Playing the market: a behavioural data analysis of digital engagement practices and investment outcomes (with C. Gilchrist, M. D. Griffiths, L. Hayes, E. Morris, S. O'Neill, J.D. Sheth and N. Stewart.

Financial Conduct Authority Occasional Paper 66, 2025

Round Number Preferences and Left-Digit Bias: Evidence from Credit Card Repayments (with H. Sakaguchi and N. Stewart)

Forthcoming, Management Science, 2025

Attention Utility: Evidence From Individual Investors (with G. Loewenstein, E. Quispe-Torreblanca and N. Stewart

Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies, 2025

At the Top of the Mind:  Peak Prices and the Disposition Effect (with D. Hume, G. Loewenstein, E.Quispe-Torreblanca and N. Stewart)

Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 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)

Management Science, 71:219-239, 2025

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

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