We develop a model in which an overconfident agent learns about groups in society from observations of his and others' successes. In our model, both the agent's information and his beliefs are multi-dimensional, allowing us to study interactions between different views. Overall, society always...

How does memory shape individuals' financial decisions? We find experimental evidence of a self-serving memory bias. Subjects over-remember their own positive investment outcomes and under-remember negative ones. In contrast, subjects who did not invest but merely observed outcomes do not have...

This research paper is an attempt to understand the relationship between factors that influences the investors decisions in the stock market. For this purpose, the data is gathered from young and active stock market investors using convenient sampling technique. Hypotheses are tested using...

Weather variables, and sunshine in particular, are found to be strongly correlated with financial variables. I consider self-reported happiness as a channel through which sunshine affects financial variables. I examine the influence of happiness on risk-taking behavior by instrumenting...

We propose a framework where perceptions of uncertainty are driven by the interaction between cognitive constraints and the way that people learn about it--whether information is presented sequentially or simultaneously. People can learn about uncertainty by observing the distribution of...

Most news stories contain both granular quantitative information and coarse categorizations. For instance, company earnings are typically reported as a dollar figure alongside categorizations, such as whether earnings beat or missed market expectations. We study the hypothesis that when a...

The authors propose that attempts to increase consumers' objective knowledge (OK) regarding financial instruments can deter willingness to invest when such attempts diminish consumers' subjective knowledge (SK). In four studies, the authors use different SK manipulations and investment products...

Investors' belief updating differs for investments in a gain position versus those in a loss position and by the favorability of the news, leading to a anomalies in investment decisions. We propose a context-sensitive reinforcement learning model unifying these empirical findings. In a...

An analysis of the Survey of Consumer Finance shows that wealthy investors have a higher return on their stocks than their poorer counterparts. Three key empirical facts emerge: (i) wealthy investors employ more productive search efforts, (ii) financial risk bearing and search efforts are...

This article sheds light on a scarcely explored area of research related to herd behavior in urban settings of developing economies, where the use of motorized twowheelers has been increasing rapidly. Using primary survey-based data from Nepal, we examine whether potential motorcycle buyers in...