Mark Egan
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View article: The Problem of Good Conduct among Financial Advisers
The Problem of Good Conduct among Financial Advisers Open
Households in the United States often rely on financial advisers for investment and savings decisions, yet there is a widespread perception that many advisers are dishonest. This distrust is not unwarranted: approximately one in fifteen ad…
View article: Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market
Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market Open
Index funds are one of the most common ways investors access financial markets and are perceived to be a transparent and low-cost alternative to active investment management.Despite these purported virtues of index fund investing and the i…
View article: Replication code and pseudodata for "Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty—Evidence from Variable Annuities"
Replication code and pseudodata for "Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty—Evidence from Variable Annuities" Open
Replication code and pseudodata for "Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty—Evidence from Variable Annuities"
View article: The Cross-Section of Bank Value
The Cross-Section of Bank Value Open
We study the determinants of value creation in U.S. commercial banks. We develop novel measures of individual banks’ productivities at collecting deposits and making loans that we relate to bank market values. We find that deposit producti…
View article: Correction: The impact of believing you have had COVID-19 on self-reported behaviour: Cross-sectional survey
Correction: The impact of believing you have had COVID-19 on self-reported behaviour: Cross-sectional survey Open
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240399.].
View article: Effect of alcohol label designs with different pictorial representations of alcohol content and health warnings on knowledge and understanding of low‐risk drinking guidelines: a randomized controlled trial
Effect of alcohol label designs with different pictorial representations of alcohol content and health warnings on knowledge and understanding of low‐risk drinking guidelines: a randomized controlled trial Open
Background and aims The UK low‐risk drinking guidelines (LRDG) recommend not regularly drinking more than 14 units of alcohol per week. We tested the effect of different pictorial representations of alcohol content, some with a health warn…
View article: Effect of alcohol label designs with different pictorial representations of alcohol content and health warnings on knowledge and understanding of low‐risk drinking guidelines: a randomized controlled trial: a randomized controlled trial
Effect of alcohol label designs with different pictorial representations of alcohol content and health warnings on knowledge and understanding of low‐risk drinking guidelines: a randomized controlled trial: a randomized controlled trial Open
Background and aimsThe UK low‐risk drinking guidelines (LRDG) recommend not regularly drinking more than 14 units of alcohol per week. We tested the effect of different pictorial representations of alcohol content, some with a health warni…
View article: The impact of believing you have had COVID-19 on self-reported behaviour: Cross-sectional survey
The impact of believing you have had COVID-19 on self-reported behaviour: Cross-sectional survey Open
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether people who think they have had COVID-19 are less likely to report engaging with lockdown measures compared with those who think they have not had COVID-19. DESIGN: On-line cross-sectional survey. SETTING:…
View article: Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty — Evidence from Variable Annuities
Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty — Evidence from Variable Annuities Open
We examine the drivers of variable annuity sales and the impact of a proposed regulatory change.Variable annuities are popular retirement products with over $2 trillion in assets in the United States.Insurers typically pay brokers a commis…
View article: The impact of believing you have had COVID-19 on behaviour: Cross-sectional survey
The impact of believing you have had COVID-19 on behaviour: Cross-sectional survey Open
Objectives To investigate whether people who think they have had COVID-19 are less likely to engage in social distancing measures compared with those who think they have not had COVID-19. Design On-line cross-sectional survey. Setting Data…
View article: Identifying the predictors of avoidable emergency department attendance after contact with the NHS 111 phone service: analysis of 16.6 million calls to 111 in England in 2015–2017
Identifying the predictors of avoidable emergency department attendance after contact with the NHS 111 phone service: analysis of 16.6 million calls to 111 in England in 2015–2017 Open
Objectives To measure the frequency of patients making avoidable emergency department (ED) attendances after contact with NHS 111 and to examine whether these attendances can be predicted reliably. Design Analysis of 16 563 946 calls made …
View article: Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds
Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds Open
We use a revealed-preference approach to estimate investor expectations of stock market returns.Using data on demand for index funds that follow the S&P 500, we develop and estimate a model of investor choice to flexibly recover the time-v…
View article: The Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market
The Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market Open
Brokers continue to play a critical role in intermediating institutional stock market transactions. More than half of all institutional investor order flow is still executed by high-touch (non-electronic) brokers. Despite the continued imp…
View article: The Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission (DeMi) CubeSat:\n optomechanical design validation and laboratory calibration
The Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission (DeMi) CubeSat:\n optomechanical design validation and laboratory calibration Open
Coronagraphs on future space telescopes will require precise wavefront\ncorrection to detect Earth-like exoplanets near their host stars. High-actuator\ncount microelectromechanical system (MEMS) deformable mirrors provide wavefront\ncontr…