The Behaviour of Noise Traders - Empirical Evidence on Purchases of Business Magazines


Czarnitzki, Dirk ; Stadtmann, Georg


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URL: http://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/519
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-5192
Document Type: Working paper
Year of publication: 2000
The title of a journal, publication series: None
Publication language: English
Institution: Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
MADOC publication series: Veröffentlichungen des ZEW (Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) > ZEW Discussion Papers
Subject: 330 Economics
Classification: JEL: D12 C22 G14 ,
Subject headings (SWD): Deutschland , Deutscher Aktienindex , Investor , Börsenspekulation
Abstract: According to the prospect theory financial investors tend to sell winners too early and ride losers too long. Therefore, demand for financial advise should be high in a bull market and low in a bear market. Thus, we test the hypothesis whether the demand for business magazines is somehow related to the performance of the stock market. It turns out that the sales of these magazines are positively correlated with the stock market index. Due to the fact that the information provided in business magazines seem to be already reflected in stock prices, trading on those kind of data will be just like trading on noise. In conclusion, we are able to isolate a major influence factor for the expectation formation process of noise traders.
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