Does an investor’s gender, religion or politics influence his or her stock purchases?
The question of “sin stock” ownership, recently investigated by Illinois State University’s Abhishek Varma and his co-authors, was the focus of this recent Wall Street Journal article http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/2011/11/21/whos-more-likely-to-own-sin-stocks/?mod=google_news_blog
Dr. Abhishek Varma is a member of the Finance, Insurance and Law Department in the College of Business.