Purpose: People often face constraints such as a lack of time or information in taking decisions, which leads them to use heuristics. In these situations, fast and frugal rules may be useful for making adaptive decisions with fewer resources, even if it leads to suboptimal choices. When applied...

The capability of momentum investment strategy was explore through portfolio risk reduction by value at risk method at liquid stock collection in Indonesia stock exchange period 2008-2016. The result show for quarterly and semester period winner portfolio has superior capacity of portfolio risk...

We provide a simple method to track firm-specific investor gambling intensity based on the publicly available transaction data. This identification approach effectively incorporates information on what and how much to buy in the trading decision of an investor with gambling preference. We...

This paper uses macroeconomic data to measure the consumption of active investors that are wealthy and derive a large fraction of their income from the capital they own. The resulting stochastic discount factor is tested on the time series and cross section of asset returns and yields reasonable...

This paper examines the relation between equity portfolio diversification choices of individual investors and stock returns. Using a six-year panel (1991-96) of individual investors, I find that stocks with less diversified individual investor clientele earn higher returns. A zero cost portfolio...

We evaluate the impact of Financial Accounting Standard 132 by measuring how well its required asset allocation information predicts next year's pension returns. We compare the predictive capability of several different models, including Sharpe's style model and survey data by Pensions &...

This paper studies whether and why algorithmic traders exhibit one of the most broadlydocumented behavioral puzzles - the disposition effect. We use trade data from the NASDAQ Copenhagen Stock Exchange merged with the weather data. We find that on average, the disposition effect for human...