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Attention Triggers and Investors' Risk Taking

Journal
Journal of Financial Economics
ISSN
0304-405X
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2022-02
Author(s)
Arnold, Marc  
Subrahmanyam, Marti
Pelster, Matthias
DOI
10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.05.031
Abstract (De)
This paper investigates how individual attention triggers influence financial risk-taking based on a large sample of trading records from a brokerage service that sends standardized push messages on stocks to retail investors. By exploiting the data in a difference-in-differences (DID) setting, we find that attention triggers increase investors' risk-taking. Our DID coefficient implies that attention trades carry, on average, a 19-percentage point higher leverage than non-attention trades. We provide a battery of cross-sectional analyses to identify the groups of investors and stocks for which this effect is stronger.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Volume
143
Number
2
Start page
846
End page
875
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/109021
Subject(s)

finance

Division(s)

s/bf - Swiss Institut...

ACA - Institute of Ac...

Eprints ID
258614

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