We examine the influence of financial asset historical price path characteristics on investors' risk perception, return beliefs and investment propensity. To that end, we run a series of survey experiments in which we present various price patterns to individuals with vested interest in...

Investors perceive stocks of companies with fluent names as more profitable. This perception may result from two different channels: direct, non-deliberate affect toward fluent names or indirect, deliberate interpretation of fluent names as a signal for company quality. We present a...

Investors perceive stocks of companies with fluent names as more profitable. This perception may result from two different channels: direct, non-deliberate affect toward fluent names or indirect, deliberate interpretation of fluent names as a signal for company quality. We present a...

Between investors and non-investors, we document a substantial gap in the perception of risk. Participants of our online experiment state their expectations of past and future returns, volatility and loss likelihoods. Non-investors overestimate historical loss probabilities more than investors,...

Despite the compelling evidence on gain-loss-domain-dependent behavior, research on domaindependent portfolio diversification is scarce. We recruited 251 experienced US retail investors to participate in a controlled experiment. Their task was to select portfolios that differ in asset...