Covid 19: Investment Decisions of Individual Investor Based on Behavioral Finance Factors
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- 10.2991/978-2-494069-39-8_9How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Behavioral Finance; Overconfidence Bias; Anchoring Bias; Herding
- Abstract
Positive achievements in trading and investment are reflected in the increasing public interest in investing in the Indonesian capital market. In theory, EMH assumes that there are many rational investors who try to maximize profits. Behavioral finance theory is an empirical study of contradictions that proves that investors are not completely rational. This is because there are psychological factors that influence investment decisions. The existence of this human psychological factor makes various financial decisions bias. This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of several behavioral biases, namely overconfidence bias, anchoring bias, and herding on stock investment decisions in Indonesian investors. This research is a quantitative and survey research with primary data. The research population includes individual stock investors in Indonesia. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling. The sample obtained was 129 respondents. The statistical method for testing the data is Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) with SmartPLS Version 3.0 software. Statistical test results show that overconfidence bias has a positive and significant effect on stock investment decisions, anchoring bias has a positive and significant effect on stock investment decisions, herding behavior is formed when investors adopt the actions of others, in this study herding has a negative and significant effect on stock investment decisions.
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TY - CONF AU - Arista Natia Afriany AU - Latifah Putranti AU - Hapsari Dyah Herdiany AU - Valsa Ayunda Tisya PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/15 TI - Covid 19: Investment Decisions of Individual Investor Based on Behavioral Finance Factors BT - Proceedings of the 1st UPY International Conference on Education and Social Science (UPINCESS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 89 EP - 101 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-39-8_9 DO - 10.2991/978-2-494069-39-8_9 ID - Afriany2022 ER -