Essays about: "Disposition Effect"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words Disposition Effect.

  1. 1. Disposition Effect and Time: Are investors increasingly reluctant to realize losses the longer they hold on to a stock?

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Mathias Lien Oskarsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Behavioral finance; Disposition effect; Holding period; Gender; Age;

    Abstract : The disposition effect is defined as the notion that investors hold on to losses for too long. In this paper I study how the disposition effect is influenced by the longer the investor holds on to a stock. READ MORE

  3. 2. How has the initial governmental policy ‘The Cares Act’, which emanated from Covid-19, affected entrepreneurship in Mississippi and Alabama?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Erica Hasselberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Covid-19 pandemic; entrepreneurship; USA; Mississippi; Alabama; the Cares Act; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This Bachelor Thesis discusses the American government’s initial fiscal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Cares Act, and investigates how the different disposition of money in the two States Mississippi and Alabama has affected entrepreneurship. This comparison is made through a descriptive analysis of how the two states, have distributed, focused and used their Cares Act capital. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Relationship Between Income Inequality and Income Growth in Swedish Municipalities.

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Nationalekonomi

    Author : Seyda Kayhan; [2022]
    Keywords : Income growth; income inequality; Gini coefficient; 2SLS; panel data; instruments;

    Abstract : Economic inequality and its effects on income growth is a topic that has been researched extensively. Previous studies with the aim to determine the impact of income inequality on economic growth have functioned more as pointers than solid facts. READ MORE

  5. 4. “We’re Never Going to Make Readers if Reading Is Always Difficult”: How Students’ Reading Habits Affect Upper-Secondary-School Teachers’ English Literature Instruction

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Utbildningsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna

    Author : Max Persson; Louise Moreira Hagvall; [2020]
    Keywords : The Matthew effect; fiction; Swedish upper-secondary school; English; teachers; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Despite the consensus that reading is good for the individual, teachers seem to report the existence of a different mindset in the classroom as they struggle to motivate students to read. Research has indicated the existence of a growing gap between weak and strong readers, and that the fast-paced and technologically advanced society of today is noticeably affecting students’ reading habits. READ MORE

  6. 5. Evidence from an Investment Experiment on the Disposition Effect : Does experience always work to your advantage?

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    Author : Aron Frieman; Etiosa Richmore; [2020]
    Keywords : Disposition Effect; Behavioral Finance;

    Abstract : Abstract Background: ​The disposition effect is a well-documented effect in behavioral finance, first brought to light in 1985 by Shefrin and Statman. The effect is caused by investors valuating unrealized gains and losses differently which can be connected to concepts like the prospect theory, Tverksy and Kahneman (1979), and loss aversion Kahneman et al. READ MORE