Cognitive biases among millennial Indian investors: Do personality and demographic factors matter?

Choudhary, Sangita, Yadav, Mohan and Srivastava, Anugamini Priya (2021) Cognitive biases among millennial Indian investors: Do personality and demographic factors matter? FIIB Business Review, 13 (1). pp. 106-117. ISSN 23197145

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Abstract

This study examines the influence of financial literacy, gender, annual family income and neuroticism personality trait on the probability of millennial equity investors to suffer from selected cognitive biases (availability bias, representative bias, mental accounting bias and anchoring and adjustment bias). Binary logistic regression method is applied to conduct the analysis. Results of the current study indicate that selected demographic factors and investor personality are significant in predicting the probability of millennial Indian investor to suffer from the biases under consideration. For availability bias, financial literacy; for representative bias, financial literacy, neuroticism and gender; for mental accounting bias, neuroticism, gender and annual family income; and for anchoring and adjustment bias, financial literacy, neuroticism, gender and annual family income are found as significant predictors

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Anchoring and Adjustment Bias | Availability Bias | Cognitive Bias | Equity Investors | Financial Literacy | Investment Decisions | Mental Accounting Bias | Neuroticism | Representative Bias
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Business, Management and Accounting > General Management
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Business School
Depositing User: Amees Mohammad
Date Deposited: 07 Feb 2022 10:00
Last Modified: 30 Jan 2024 07:17
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/1090

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