Tobias Jacob "Toby" Moskowitz (born February 3, 1971) is an American financial economist and a professor at the Yale School of Management.
"[4] According to the University of Chicago press release, "Moskowitz has explored topics as diverse as momentum in stock returns, local bias in investment portfolio choice, and the social effects of bank mergers.
He also looked at the return to private business ownership, the trading and financing of commercial real estate, and the political economy of financial regulation.
"[5] Moskowitz won the 2000 Smith-Breeden Prize for his paper "Home Bias at Home: Local Equity Preference in Domestic Portfolios" (with Joshua Coval),[6] published in the Journal of Finance and the 2005 Brattle Prize second place for "Testing Agency Theory with Entrepreneur Effort and Wealth" (with Marianne P. Bitler and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen),[7] published in the Journal of Finance.
In 2011, Moskowitz and co-author L. Jon Wertheim published Scorecasting, a book that uses statistical and other empirical research results to analyze conventional sports wisdom.