Papers & constructs

Question 1

Mental Accounting in portfolio choice: evidence from a flypaper effect.

Answer 1

• Mental accounting

- Flypaper effect

Question 2

Are investors reluctant to realize their losses?

Answer 2

• Disposition effect
• prospect theory
• alternative behaviour theory
• taxes

Question 3

Do individual investors have asymmetric information based on work experience?

Answer 3

• Own-industry bias
• Proximity bias
• Professional close stocks

Question 4

All that Glitters: The effect of attention and news on the buying behaviour of individual and institutional investors

Answer 4

• Retail investor

- limited attention capability

Question 5

Sensation Seeking, Overconfidence and Trading activity

Answer 5

• Sensation seeking
• overconfidence
• trading behaviour
• active investing puzzle

Question 6

Uninformative feedback and risk taking: evidence from retail forex trading

Answer 6

• Retail trading
• Risk taking
• Self-attribution
• Overconfidence

Question 7

The role of information and social interactions in retirement plan decisions: evidence from a randomized experiment

Answer 7

• Social effects
• conformity in behaviour
• spill-over

Question 8

Neighbors Matter: Causal community effects and stock market participation

Answer 8

-Community effects

Question 9

Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market

Answer 9

• Sentiment

- Speculative

Question 10

Replicating anomalies; the review of financial studies

Answer 10

• Microcaps; equal vs. value weighting

- Sample in/exclude Amex and Nasdaq,

Question 11

Save more tomorrow: using behavioural economics to increase employee saving

Answer 11

Key ingredients:

• Automatic (inertia)
• Precommitted
• Always opt-out
• Only when salary raises