Are You Smarter than an Ostrich: Does “Skin in the Game” Influence an Investor’s Portfolio Monitoring Behavior?

Abstract In this paper, we examine the behavior of subjects in a mock financial investment experiment to investigate the effects of “skin in the game” and ego utility on hedonic information acquisition decisions. We observe how often subjects “check” their portfolios after given general market retur...

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Main Author: Liu, Iris
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2016
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1319
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2461&context=cmc_theses