Information valuation and confirmation bias in virtual communities: Evidence from stock message boards

Information Systems Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1050-1067

  Park, JaeHong ^a   Konana, Prabhudev ^b   Gu, Bin ^c   Kumar, Alok ^d   Raghunathan, Rajagopal ^b  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmation bias; Investment decisions; Overconfidence; Stock message boards; Virtual communities

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CONFIRMATION BIAS; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; MESSAGE BOARDS; OVERCONFIDENCE; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84891822585     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2013.0492     Document Type: Article

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