College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professor of Finance and James F. Towey Faculty Fellow

Brown, J. , Dimmock, S., Kang, J., Weisbenner, S. Forthcoming. How University Endowments Respond to Financial Market Shocks: Evidence and Implications. American Economic Review

Almeida, H. , Campello, M., Laranjeira, B., Weisbenner, S. 2012. Corporate Debt Maturity and the Real Effects of the 2007 Credit Crisis. Critical Finance Review, 1: 3-58

Becker, B., Ivkovich, Z., Weisbenner, S. 2011. Local Dividend Clienteles. Journal of Finance, 66: 655-684

Brown, J. , Coile, C., Weisbenner, S. 2010. The Effect of Inheritance Receipt on Retirement Decisions. Review of Economics and Statistics, 92: 425-434

Ivkovich, Z., Weisbenner, S. 2009. Individual Investor Mutual-Fund Flows. Journal of Financial Economics, 92: 223-237

Brown, J. , Ivkovich, Z., Smith, P., Weisbenner, S. 2008. Neighbors Matter: Causal Community Effects and Stock Market Participation. Journal of Finance, 63: 1509-1531

Ivkovich, Z., Sialm, C., Weisbenner, S. 2008. Portfolio Concentration and the Performance of Individual Investors. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 43: 613-656

Brown, J. , Liang, N., Weisbenner, S. 2007. Individual Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice: Behaviorial Lessons from 401 (k) Plans. Journal of Public Economics, 91: 1992-2013

Brown, J. , Liang, N., Weisbenner, S. 2007. Executive Financial Incentives and Payout Policy: Evidence from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut. Journal of Finance, 62: 1935-1965

Ivkovich, Z., Weisbenner, S. 2007. Information Diffusion Effects in Individual Investors' Common Stock Purchases: Covet Thy Neighbors' Investment Choices. Review of Financial Studies, 20: 1327-1357

Brown, J. , Liang, N., Weisbenner, S. 2006. 401(k) Matching Contributions in Company Stock: Costs and Benefits for Firms and Workers. Journal of Public Economics, 90: 1315-1346

Ivkovich, Z., Poterba, J., Weisbenner, S. 2005. Tax-Motivated Trading by Individual Investors. The American Economic Review, 95: 1605-1630

Ivkovich, Z., Weisbenner, S. 2005. Local Does as Local Is: Information Content of the Geography of Individual Investors' Common Stock Investments. Journal of Finance, 60: 267-306

Weisbenner, S., Poterba, J. 2003. Inter-Asset Differences in Effective Estate Tax Burdens. The American Economic Review, 93: 360-365

Weisbenner, S. 2002. Do Pension Plans with Participant Investment Choice Teach Households to Hold More Equity? Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 1: 223-248

Weisbenner, S., Poterba, J. 2001. Capital Gains Tax Rules, Tax-Loss Trading, and Turn-of-the Year Returns. Journal of Finance, 56: 353-368

Brown, J. , Weisbenner, S. 2009. Who Chooses Defined Contribution Plans?. In Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey Liebman, and David Wise (Ed.), Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment, 131-161. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Brown, J. , Weisbenner, S. 2004. Intergenerational Transfers and Savings Behavior. In David A. Wise (Ed.), Perspectives on the Economics of Aging, 181-201. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Weisbenner, S., Poterba, J. 2001. The Distributional Burden of Taxing Estates and Unrealized Capital Gains at Death. In William G. Gale, James R. Hines, and Joel Slemrod (Ed.), Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation, 422-449. Brookings Institution.

Brown, J. , Ivkovich, Z., Weisbenner, S. 2013. Empirical Determinants of Intertemporal Choice

Brown, J. , Weisbenner, S. 2013. Why Do Individuals Choose Defined Contribution Plans? Evidence from Participants in a Large Public Plan

Deuskar, P. , Pan, D., Weisbenner, S., Wu, F. 2012. The Effect of Regret

Brown, J. , Dimmock, S., Weisbenner, S. 2012. The Supply of and Demand for Charitable Donations to Higher Education

Brown, J. , Pollet, J., Weisbenner, S. 2012. The Investment Behavior of State Pension Plans

Brown, J. , Farrell, A., Weisbenner, S. 2011. The Downside of Defaults

Weisbenner, S., Liang, N. 2001. Who Benefits from a Bull Market? An Analysis of Employee Stock Option Grants and Stock Prices

Weisbenner, S. 2000. Corporate Share Repurchases in the 1990s: What Role Do Stock Options Play?

Weisbenner, S. 2005. Tax-Motivated Trading by Individual InvestorsWharton School, Philadelphia.

Weisbenner, S. 2005. Neighbors Matter: The Geography of Stock Market ParticipationDePaul University/Chicago Fed, Chicago.

Weisbenner, S. 2005. 401(k) Matching Contributions in Company Stock--Costs and Benefits for Firms and WorkersAmerican Economic Association Meetings, Philadelphia.

Brown, J. , Ivkovich, Z., Smith, P., Weisbenner, S. 2004. The Geography of Stock Market Participation: The Influence of Communities and Local FirmsWestern Finance Association Annual Meetings, 2011, Vancouver.

Ivkovich, Z., Poterba, J., Weisbenner, S. 2004. Tax-Loss Trading by Individual Investors: New Evidence from Brokerage AccountsAmerican Economic Association Meetings, San Diego.

Ivkovich, Z., Weisbenner, S. 2003. Local Does as Local Is: Information Content of the Geography of Individual Investors' Common Stock InvestmentsWestern Finance Association Annual Meetings, 2011, Los Cabos.

Weisbenner, S. 2003. Inter-Asset Differences in Effective Estate Tax BurdensAmerican Economic Association Meetings, Washington.

Weisbenner, S. 2003. Investor Behavior and Purchase of Company Stock in 401(k) Plans - the Importance of Plan DesignAmerican Finance Association Meetings, Washington.

Ivkovich, Z., Weisbenner, S. 2002. Local Does as Local Is: Information Content of the Geography of Individual Investors' Common Stock InvestmentsUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Weisbenner, S. 2002. Corporate Share Repurchases in the 1990s: What Role Do Stock Options Play?American Finance Association Meetings, Atlanta.

Weisbenner, S. 2002. Corporate Share Repurchases in the 1990s: What Role Do Stock Options Play?National Forum on Corporate Finance, Austin.

Weisbenner, S. 2001. Is a Bird in Hand Worth More than a Bird in the Bush? Intergenerational Transfers and Savings BehaviorNBER Aging Conference, Carefree.

Weisbenner, S. 2001. Taxing Estate and Unrealized Capital Gains at DeathAmerican Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans.

Weisbenner, S. 2000. Taxing Estates and Unrealized Capital Gains at DeathBrookings/University of Michigan's Office of Tax Policy Research, Washington.

Weisbenner, S. 1998. Capital Gains Tax Rules, Tax-Loss Trading, and Turn-of-the-Year ReturnsAmerican Finance Association Meetings, Chicago.