NAÏVE INVESTMENT STRATEGIES IN COMPLEX FINANCIAL CHOICES

• Authors: Baláž Vladimír , Viera Bačová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study analysed efficiency of heuristic strategies in complex financial choices. Some 200 naïve investors evaluated 15 financial products with eight attributes. Complex choices developed in two stages. The stage one employed non-compensatory strategies for reducing information burden, eliminating inadequate options and specifying a more narrow decision set. Attribute-based compensatory strategies are accounted for a significant majority of strategies in stage two. Naïve decision strategies worked relatively well. Average Sharpe ratios and product ranks were higher than random choices of financial products. The best results were delivered by the normative strategy, however, at the cost of a high information burden.

Keywords

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FINANCIAL CHOICE; NAÏVE STRATEGIES; EFFICIENCY OF HEURISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 599 – 616

Contributors

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Baláž Vladimír

• Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Šancová 56, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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Viera Bačová