Hidden Consequences of Consumer Protection on the Financial Market: Regulation-introduced Bias

Jiří Šindelář and Petr Budinský

Prague Economic Papers, 2024, vol. 2024, issue 3, 277-318

Abstract: This paper deals with the problem of how the risk perception among retail customers is affected by the consumer protection regulation on the financial market. Through a questionnaire survey, we have measured the effect of selected consumer protection measures on banking or investment decisions taken by a young (student) population. These measures included the most common elements of financial regulation, such as bank deposit insurance, corporate bond prospectus, licenced fund management and securities broker indemnity insurance. Our results show that protective state intervention represents strong stimuli for customer decision-making with a widely misleading effect. It overshadows other factors, including individual qualification, risk-reward preference and demographic attributes, all of which were found to be insignificant. Since the surveyed measures reached a similar level of effect yet they offer different substance, this outcome has important policymaking implications.

Keywords: financial regulation; consumer behaviour; consumer protection; behavioural finance; capital market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D18 G18 G41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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