Apesteguia, Jose; Oechssler, Joerg; Weidenholzer, Simon - 2018
millions of users in recent years. The present paper studies the implications of copy trading for the risk taking of investors … significant increase in risk taking of subjects. This increase in risk taking is even larger when subjects are provided with the … option to directly copy others. We conclude that copy trading reduces ex-ante welfare, and leads to excessive risk taking. …