Professor JOHN GATHERGOOD's Outputs (3)

Early Behavioral Markers of Loss of Financial Capacity (2025)
Journal Article
Trendl, A., Anwyl-Irvine, A., Vomfell, L., Abbey, E., Stewart, N., Atkins, D., Llewellyn, D. J., Gathergood, J., & Leake, D. (in press). Early Behavioral Markers of Loss of Financial Capacity. JAMA Network Open, 8(6), Article e2515894. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.15894

Importance
Many conditions, including neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders, can impair financial decision-making in older age. Although banking data offer rich insights, they have not yet been leveraged to understand how the loss o... Read More about Early Behavioral Markers of Loss of Financial Capacity.

Attention Utility: Evidence from Individual Investors (2025)
Journal Article
Quispe–Torreblanca, E., Gathergood, J., Loewenstein, G., & Stewart, N. (2025). Attention Utility: Evidence from Individual Investors. Review of Economic Studies, Article rdaf028. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaf028

We study attention utility, the hedonic pleasure or pain derived purely from paying attention to information, which differs from the news utility that arises from gaining new information. The main, field, study examines brokerage account login data t... Read More about Attention Utility: Evidence from Individual Investors.

Round Number Preferences and Left-Digit Bias: Evidence from Credit Card Repayments (2025)
Journal Article
Sakaguchi, H., Gathergood, J., & Stewart, N. (in press). Round Number Preferences and Left-Digit Bias: Evidence from Credit Card Repayments. Management Science,

We examine round number preferences and left-digit bias in credit card repayments. We show half of all manual credit card payments are at a small set of round-number values, although all values between the statement minimum and balance were permissib... Read More about Round Number Preferences and Left-Digit Bias: Evidence from Credit Card Repayments.