Investigating Overconfidence in Investor Behaviour

Amitesh Kapoor

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Investigating Overconfidence in Investor Behaviour

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Authors: Amitesh Kapoor;

doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2502281

Investigating Overconfidence in Investor Behaviour

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent financial investors are overconfident in financial markets. More importantly, I explored how this psychological attribute may have any bearing on investment performance. The main question is how ans why overconfidence affect investment performance, if at all if it does. I measured investor overconfidence by content analysing the investment pattern in top thirty stocks of BSE.

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