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Analyze the difference in trading between men and women by using behavioral finance knowledge

Xiaotong Sun

Abstract


There is a large number of research proving that women make better traders than men. This result may attribute to three factors:
overconfidence, risk preference and contrarian strategy. This paper examines the difference in trading between men and women by using
behavioral finance knowledge and to prove that women make better traders than men. In addition, it will give some reasons why the low proportion of women working as traders.

Keywords


Behavioral Finance; Decision-Making; Contrarian Strategy; Risk Preference; Investment

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/fm.v9i6.13666

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