Copy Trading [Dataset]

DOI

Copy trading allows traders in social networks to receive information on the success of other agents in financial markets and to directly copy their trades. Internet platforms like eToro, ZuluTrade, and Tradeo have attracted millions of users in recent years. The present paper studies the implications of copy trading for the risk taking of investors. Implementing a novel experimental financial asset market, we show that providing information on the success of others leads to a 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 leads to excessive risk taking.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.11588/data/PAMQ0B
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3508
Metadata Access https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.11588/data/PAMQ0B
Provenance
Creator Apesteguia, Jose; Oechssler, Jörg ORCID logo; Weidenholzer, Simon ORCID logo
Publisher heiDATA
Contributor Oechssler, Jörg; heiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository
Publication Year 2020
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
Contact Oechssler, Jörg (Alfred-Weber-Institute of Economics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany)
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