Are Taiwanese individual investors reluctant to realize their losses?

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 201-223

  Shu, Pei Gi ^a   Yeh, Yin Hua ^a   Chiu, Shean Bii ^b   Chen, Hsuan Chi ^c  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Disposition effect; Individual investors; Investor characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844296990     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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