Retail Investors' Cryptocurrency Investments
In: Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 23-51
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In: Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 23-51
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In: Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 4737062
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In: Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
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In: Desagre, C., & D'Hondt, C. (2021). Googlization and retail trading activity. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 29, 100453.
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In: Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, Band 25, Heft 3
ISSN: 1793-6705
In this study, we use the number of retail investors in China's stock market to investigate how retail investors affect stock price synchronicity. We find that a higher number of retail investors in a firm is associated with higher stock price synchronicity. Moreover, we trace this association to two sources. One is a negative effect of the number of retail investors on the probability of informed trading (PIN), suggesting that retail investors generate arbitrage risk which discourages informed trading. The other is a positive influence of the number of retail investors on price comovement (beta), resulting from correlated trading among retail investors.
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This paper investigates the relationship between subjective financial literacy, i.e. self-reported by investors, and trading behavior. In particular, we use the level of financial knowledge and experience reported in the MiFID tests by retail investors. Such tests are implemented in the EU from the so-called MiFID directive since November 2007. We show that subjective financial literacy helps explain cross-sectional variations in retail investors' behavior. Investors who report higher levels of financial literacy seem to invest smarter, even after controlling for gender, age, portfolio value, trading experience and education. They trade more and are less prone to the disposition effect. They tend to concentrate their portfolios on a small set of stocks and achieve diversification through investment funds holding. Their trading behaviors allow them to display higher gross and net returns as well as higher excess Sharpe ratios. Our findings are relevant for both policy making and understanding retail investors' behavior.
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This paper investigates the relationship between subjective financial literacy, i.e. self-reported by investors, and trading behavior. In particular, we use the level of financial knowledge and experience reported in the MiFID tests by retail investors. Such tests are implemented in the EU from the so-called MiFID directive since November 2007. We show that subjective financial literacy helps explain cross-sectional variations in retail investors' behavior. Investors who report higher levels of financial literacy seem to invest smarter, even after controlling for gender, age, portfolio value, trading experience and education. They trade more and are less prone to the disposition effect. They tend to concentrate their portfolios on a small set of stocks and achieve diversification through investment funds holding. Their trading behaviors allow them to display higher gross and net returns as well as higher excess Sharpe ratios. Our findings are relevant for both policy making and understanding retail investors' behavior.
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In: Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu, Band 64, Heft 6, S. 168-181
ISSN: 2392-0041
In: NBER Working Paper No. w24176
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In: Forthcoming, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance
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