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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title How Persistent are the Effects of Experience Sampling on Investor Behavior?
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Meike A S Bradbury
  • Thorsten Hens
  • Stefan Zeisberger
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Banking and Finance
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0378-4266
Volume 98
Page Range 61 - 79
Date 2019
Abstract Text Investor behavior was shown to be considerably different when the risk-return tradeoff is presented by experience sampling as opposed to a descriptive communication. We analyze the persistency of this difference in a setting in which investors are faced with multiple decisions over time and are consequently able to adjust the risk level they initially chose. For this we use an experimental setting with repeated investment decisions over multiple trading days, and we also test a new form of risk simulation in which wealth paths over time are presented rather than just final outcomes. After investors’ initial decisions, for which we confirm previous findings, we do not find persistent differences of simulation-based learning on investors’ risk-taking behavior. With regards to trading volume, only a simulation in which investors see wealth paths and not only final outcomes leads to lower trading frequency soon after the initial asset allocation.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2018.10.014
Other Identification Number merlin-id:16893
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