Behavioral Finance Expert & Professor at UC Berkeley Haas; Authority on Investor Psychology; Wall Street Journal Expert Panelist

Berkeley, CA, USA
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Terrance Odean Biography

Terrance Odean is the Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and is recognized for his research in behavioral finance. Odean's work focuses on individual investor behavior, examining psychological biases such as overconfidence and the disposition effect, and their influence on trading performance and asset prices. After initially leaving Carleton College before completing a creative writing degree, Odean returned to academia at UC Berkeley, where he considered graduate studies in psychology before being encouraged by Daniel Kahneman to pursue a doctorate in finance.

Odean studied judgment and decision making as an undergraduate at Berkeley with Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. He joined the Haas faculty after earning his Ph.D. in finance from UC Berkeley. Odean has served as an associate editor for The Journal of Finance and The Review of Financial Studies, directed UC Berkeley's Experimental Social Science Laboratory, and held advisory roles with Financial Planning Review and the Journal of Investment Consulting. He is also a member of the Russell Sage Behavioral Economics Roundtable and serves as a Wall Street Journal Expert Panelist.

Odean's research has contributed to the understanding of market behavior among economists and investors. His publication, "Are Investors Reluctant to Realize Their Losses?" in The Journal of Finance, introduced the disposition effect, highlighting investors' tendencies to hold losing stocks too long and sell winners too soon. This work has been widely cited in the fields of finance and economics. In collaboration with Brad M. Barber, Odean co-authored studies such as "Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors" in the Journal of Finance and "Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment" in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He also co-authored "Attention Induced Trading and Returns: Evidence from Robinhood Users" in the Journal of Finance, expanding his research into commission-free retail trading platforms.

Odean has received recognition from academic and professional organizations, including the James R. Vertin Award from the CFA Institute, the Carleton College Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award, the Barclays Global Investors Award for Best Conference Paper at the European Finance Association Meetings, the Barclays Global Investment / Michael Brennan Prize for Best Paper in the Review of Financial Studies, the Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence, and the Dimensional Fund Advisors Distinguished Paper Award from the Journal of Finance. Odean has also produced educational money management videos on YouTube, aiming to provide practical financial guidance to individual investors.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/27/2026.

Terrance Odean Videos

Making Smart Financial Decisions

Making Smart Financial Decisions

This channel contains videos from an online personal finance course I taught titled "Making Smart Financial Decisions." The course is not currently...

Buying the Same Stock -- Again: Pride and Regret Drive Investors ...

Buying the Same Stock -- Again: Pride and Regret Drive Investors ...

How likely are you to repurchase a stock you sold? Professor Terrance Odean, who studies behavioral finance, found that that trading patterns...

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