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Tissue and organ engineering: Investor sentiments and analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesRegen Ther
Velcani F   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Social impact bonds: opportunities for funding health promotion and disease prevention. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Plankó S   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Individual Investors and Volatility [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
ABSTRACTWe show that retail trading activity has a positive effect on the volatility of stock returns, which suggests that retail investors behave as noise traders. To identify this effect, we use a reform of the French stock market that raises the relative cost of speculative trading for retail investors.
Foucault, Thierry   +2 more
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Technical analysis and individual investors

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014
We find that individual investors who use technical analysis and trade options frequently make poor portfolio decisions, resulting in dramatically lower returns than other investors. The data on which this claim is based consists of transaction records and matched survey responses of a sample of Dutch discount brokerage clients for the period 2000-2006.
Arvid O.I. Hoffmann, Hersh Shefrin
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Individual Investors

2017
Traditional finance explains individual investor’s behavior and financial decision making based on economic incentives and rationality. Modern finance, however, takes a holistic view and searches for not only economic but also biological, psychological, and social factors that shape decision making.
Henrik Cronqvist, Danling Jiang
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THE INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR

Journal of Financial Research, 1995
AbstractIn this paper I address several phenomena that arise from the limited information possessed by individual investors. This limitation focuses attention on the channels by which investors receive information about securities. I find this perspective to have implications for the marketing of financial products, the dissemination of information by ...
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The Behavior of Individual Investors

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Abstract We provide an overview of research on the stock trading behavior of individual investors. This research documents that individual investors (1) underperform standard benchmarks (e.g. a low-cost index fund), (2) sell winning investments while holding losing investments (the “disposition effect”), (3) are heavily influenced by limited ...
Brad M. Barber, Terrance Odean
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Individual Investors and Stock Returns

The Journal of Investing, 2016
This article examines the relationship between the S&P 500 stock index and the S&P 500 sentiment index compiled by the American Association of Individual Investors. The empirical investigation is based on ordinary least squares and quantile regressions during the period from 1987 to 2015. The main finding supports the idea that the individual investors
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Reaching the Individual Investor

2012
There are fewer and fewer individual shareholders among the prospective investors in your company. That is because people have become more aware of specific risk (chapter 2) and of the wisdom of diversification through mutual funds. There are, however, some individuals who still want to manage all aspects of their financial activities. These individual
Ralph A. Rieves, John Lefebvre
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Trust and local bias of individual investors

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2016
It has been widely documented that investment decisions of individual investors exhibit local bias. Yet little is known of how societal forces affect investors' portfolio allocations of local versus nonlocal assets. We propose that social capital, and trust in particular, decreases the local bias of individual investors.
Ran Shao, Na Wang
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