Personality differences and investment decision-making

Zhengyang Jiang, Cameron Peng and Hongjun Yan

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Abstract: We survey thousands of affluent American investors to examine the relationship between personalities and investment decisions. The Big Five personality traits correlate with investors' beliefs about the stock market and economy, risk preferences, and social interaction tendencies. Two personality traits, Neuroticism and Openness, stand out in their explanatory power for equity investments. Investors with high Neuroticism and those with low Openness tend to allocate less investment to equities. We examine the underlying mechanisms and find evidence for both standard channels of preferences and beliefs and other nonstandard channels. We show consistent out-of-sample evidence in representative panels of Australian and German households.

Keywords: investor heterogeneity; personality; social interaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2024-03-01
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Published in Journal of Financial Economics, 1, March, 2024, 153. ISSN: 0304-405X

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