Professor of Economics
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
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, 2025
The Co-holding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data (with A.Olafsson)
Forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies, 2025
Early Behavioral Markets of Loss of Financial Capability (with E. Abbey, A. Anwyl-Irvine, D. Atkins, D. Leake, D. Llewellyn, A. Trendl, N. Stewart and L. Vomfell)
Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open, 8(6), e2515894, 2025
Investor Logins and the Disposition Effect (with G. Loewenstein, E. Quispe-Torreblanca and N. Stewart)
Management Science, 71:219-239, 2025
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
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