Cutting profits and running losses: Mechanisms behind the disposition effect

• Main Authors: Rapada, Maria Zunally, Fernandez, Ma. Isabel
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Stocks; Risk-taking (Psychology)—Sex differences; Behavioral Economics; Finance; Gender and Sexuality
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11053
• Institution: De La Salle University

Can we balance risk attitudes simply by exposing subjects to gender stereotypes? Empirical approaches to hypothesis-testing would be inadequate in inducing relevant behavioral patterns. But with a well-designed experiment, we are able to investigate whether social and individual-level effects of gen...