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  • 标题:Financial Literacy, Behavioral Biases and Investor's Portfolio Diversification: Empirical Study of an Emerging Stock Market
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  • 作者:Muhammad Anwar ; Sher Zaman Khan ; Amin Ur Rehman
  • 期刊名称:Journal of Finance & Economics Research
  • 印刷版ISSN:2415-2463
  • 电子版ISSN:2415-2455
  • 出版年度:2017
  • 卷号:2
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:145-164
  • DOI:10.20547/jfer1702204
  • 出版社:Geist Science
  • 摘要:The purpose of this study is to check the impact of financial literacy and behavioral biases on investor’s portfolio diversification. Data were collected through questionnaire using sample size of 181 investors trading in Pakistan Stock Market. The results indicate that financial literacy has insignificant and positive influence on investor’s portfolio diversification, behavioral biases such as familiarity and availability biases have insignificant and negative while overconfidence bias has significant negative impact on investor’s portfolio diversification. Portfolio size also has significant positive impact on portfolio diversification. The findings suggest the implementation of financial literacy programs to facilitate the investors, trading in different stocks. The implications for practice were discussed in detail.
  • 关键词:Financial literacy; familiarity bias; availability bias; overconfidence bias; portfolio size; portfolio diversification.
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