investors’ trading behaviour and risk-taking. We analyse a large sample of trading records from a social trading brokerage … opportunity to investigate how individuals’ trading activities and risk-taking change with respect to the outcomes of their peers …. We show that investors’ risk-taking increases as a result of their peers’ trading performance. We exploit plausibly …

this relation is driven by a link between internal economic locus of control and a lower perception of the risk of …

men. Once risk attitude is controlled for, this effect shrinks to only 2.6 percent. We find no difference when single … participation is mainly explained by different risk attitudes and monetary endowments, but women would participate even less in the … capital market if they reacted as sensitively to risk aversion as their male counterparts. Lastly, given participation in the …

stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors' local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and that this drop in …

stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …

stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors' local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …

men. Once risk attitude is controlled for, this effect shrinks to only2.6 percent. We find no difference when single women … is mainly explained by different risk attitudes and monetary endowments, but women would participate even less in the … capital market if they reacted as sensitively to risk aversion as their male counterparts. Lastly, given participation in the …

in risky assets itself impact on risk attitudes. We show that individuals with a higher willingness to take risks are … more likely to hold bonds, stocks, and company assets. When grouping individuals into risk groups, our results reveal that … high risk takers are also less likely to own a life insurance. If endogenous adaption of risk attitudes from holding assets …