Implications from Biased Probability Judgments for International Disparities in Momentum Returns

Autor: Keigo Inukai, Kai Duttle
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Behavioral Finance. 18:143-151
ISSN: 1542-7579
1542-7560
DOI: 10.1080/15427560.2017.1308937
Popis: Momentum is a consistent phenomenon in financial data from the majority of markets around the globe. One prominent exception is the Japanese market, where returns from a momentum-investment strategy are nonexistent. The authors investigated international differences in the representativeness heuristic, which is one potential driver of momentum. After observing sequences of a random walk, subjects give probability estimates for the direction of the respective next change. The experiment was conducted in Japan and in Germany. For a subgroup of participants with lower cognitive abilities our results are perfectly in line with international momentum evidence.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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