Socially Amplified Trading? [PREMIUM]
How do relevant electronic social networks affect individual investing? In their March 2012 paper entitled “Facebook Finance: How Social Interaction Propagates Active Investing”, Rawley Heimer and David Simon investigate the propagation o...
Individual German Investors Underperform?
Is individual investing truly a tale of woeful mistakes and biases? In their March 2012 paper entitled “No Skill, Mere Luck? – An Analysis of Individual Investors’ Investment Performance”, Andreas Hackethal, Steffen Meyer, Dennis Schmo...
Investor Overconfidence and Trading Behaviors [PREMIUM]
How overconfident are individual investors, and how does overconfidence affect their investing practices? In his November 2011 paper entitled “Financial Overconfidence Over Time | Foresight, Hindsight, and Insight of Investors”, Chris...
Individual Investors in Bull and Bear Markets [PREMIUM]
How do individual investors adjust trading behaviors during bull and bear markets? Are any such adjustments advantageous? In their December 2011 paper entitled “Don’t Confuse Brains with a Bull Market: Attribution Bias, Market Condition, and Tr...
Active Beats Buy-and-Hold? [PREMIUM]
Do individuals who actively reallocate funds within their pension accounts outperform passive counterparts? In their October 2011 paper entitled “Individual Investor Activity and Performance”, Magnus Dahlquist, Jose Vicente Martinez and Pa...
Performance of Futures Day Traders [PREMIUM]
Do futures day traders make money? In the March 2011 version of their paper entitled “Overconfident Individual Day Traders: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Wei-Yu Kuo and Tse-Chun Lin investigate overconfidence and performance of d...
Impact of Free, Unbiased Investing Advice
How do individual investors respond to an offer of free, unbiased investment advice? In their August 2010 paper entitled “Is Unbiased Financial Advice To Retail Investors Sufficient? Answers from a Large Field Study”, Utpal Bhattacharya, An...
Gain and Loss Learning
Do distinct neural processes for rewards and punishments result in distinct variation in learning about financial gains and financial losses? If so, is such variation material to wealth-building? In their September 2011 paper entitled “Gain and L...
Invest in Wine?
Is fine wine a good investment? Two recent studies are on the case. In their February 2010 paper entitled “Raise your Glass: Wine Investment and the Financial Crisis”, Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf examine the risk, return and...
Overview of Research on Individual Investors
What does the body of academic research say about the stock trading behaviors and outcomes for individual investors? In their June 2011 paper entitled “The Behavior of Individual”, Brad Barber and Terrance Odean survey four areas of empiric...
Return on Gems
Do gems offer good returns? How do the returns of these tangible assets compare with those of other asset classes? In the April 2011 version of their paper entitled “Hard Assets: The Returns on Rare Diamonds and Gems”, Luc Renneboog and Chr...
Benefit of Tax-deferred Retirement Savings?
How effective are tax-deferred savings in avoiding federal income taxes over a lifetime? In their May 2011 paper entitled “The Tax Benefit of Income Smoothing”, Kristian Rydqvist, Steven Schwartz and Joshua Spizman estimate the lifetime ben...
