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Are paper winners gamblers? Evidence from Australian retail investors

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  • Alex Frino
  • Grace Lepone
  • Danika Wright

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This study examines stock market gambling using a comprehensive set of investor characteristics and past portfolio performance measures. We find that retail investors overinvest in ‘lottery stocks’, stocks with gambling‐like properties. Significant portfolio underperformance is the result of gambling through lottery stocks. Investors are more likely to gamble following recent portfolio paper gains, regardless of realised performance, providing new evidence that paper gains trigger a house money effect. Investors trading greater values or holding more stocks, and older and female investors, are less likely to invest in lottery stocks.

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  • Alex Frino & Grace Lepone & Danika Wright, 2019. "Are paper winners gamblers? Evidence from Australian retail investors," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 59(S1), pages 593-614, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:acctfi:v:59:y:2019:i:s1:p:593-614
    DOI: 10.1111/acfi.12296
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    1. Ana Brochado & Margarida Abreu & Victor Mendes, 2020. "Correlates of Gambling," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 40(1), pages 456-462.
    2. Pagano, Michael S. & Sedunov, John & Velthuis, Raisa, 2021. "How did retail investors respond to the COVID-19 pandemic? The effect of Robinhood brokerage customers on market quality," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 43(C).
    3. Lepone, Grace & Tian, Gary, 2020. "Usage of conditional orders and the disposition effect in the stock market," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 61(C).
    4. Zhijuan Chen & William T. Lin & Changfeng Ma & Kent Wang, 2020. "Are individual investors liquidity providers around earnings announcements? Evidence from an emerging market," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 60(4), pages 3447-3475, December.
    5. Lepone, Grace & Yang, Zhini, 2020. "Do early birds behave differently from night owls in the stock market?," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 61(C).
    6. Grace Lepone & Joakim Westerholm & Danika Wright, 2023. "Speculative trading preferences of retail investor birth cohorts," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 63(1), pages 555-574, March.

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