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Individual Investors and Volatility

2008
We test the hypothesis that individual investors contribute to the idiosyncratic volatility of stock returns because they act as noise traders. To this end, we consider a reform that makes short selling or buying on margin more expensive for retail investors relative to institutions, for a subset of French stocks. If retail investors are noise traders,
Foucault, Thierry, Thesmar, David, Sraer, David   +2 more
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Social Disclosure and the Individual Investor

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 1994
The demand for social information by individual investors is supported by the survey reported in this study. Based on the results of the 1991 survey on the usefulness of annual reports to corporate shareholders, there appears to be a strong demand for information about product safety and quality, and about the company′s environmental activities ...
Marc J. Epstein, Martin Freedman
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Domestic Individual Investors

2012
This chapter deals with the first significant financialization in a government debt market: individual investors moving from being depositors in commercial banks to being direct owners of their own government’s debt. Individuals have an increased ability to trade a risk which, it can be argued, they in part assume as bank depositors (especially in ...
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THE INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR: ATTRIBUTES AND ATTITUDES

The Journal of Finance, 1974
Lease, Ronald C, Lewellen, Wilbur G, Schlarbaum, Gary G   +2 more
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Individual investors and risk-taking

Journal of Economic Psychology, 1982
Abstract During the last decade, a large amount of information has been collected concerning financial markets and financial institutions. Less is known about individual investors. This study relates a specific personality characteristics, locus of control, to portfolio risk as measured by beta; these two concepts are described below.
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Do individual investors pay attention to the information acquisition activities of institutional investors?

Finance Research Letters, 2023
Jing Lu
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Do Individual Investors Trade on Investment-Related Internet Postings?

Management Science, 2021
Nic Schaub
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The Local Bias of Individual Investors

2002
This study investigates individual investors' bias towards nearby companies. Using data from a large U.S. discount brokerage, we find that individual investors tend to invest in companies closer to them relative to the market portfolio. Unlike Coval and Moskowitz's (1999) findings on institutional investors, however, we find that advantageous ...
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Trust and local bias of individual investors

Journal of Banking and Finance, 2021
Ran Shao
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Socially responsible investment behavior: a study of individual investors from India

Review of Behavioral Finance, 2023
Shuchi Pahuja
exaly