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Individual investment decision behaviors based on demographic characteristics: Case from China

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  • Qiujun Lan
  • Qingyue Xiong
  • Linjie He
  • Chaoqun Ma

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Predicting and analyzing behaviors of investors is of great value to financial institutions. This paper uses survey data from about 9,000 individual investors across China to explore the predictability of decision behaviors by studying demographic characteristics that are relatively easy to obtain. After applying Pearson’s chi-squared test, Spearman rank correlation test, and several data mining methods, we verified that demographic characteristics are closely linked to decision behaviors, and it would be an economical and feasible solution for financial organizations to build initial behavioral prediction models especially when investors’ behavioral data are insufficient.

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  • Qiujun Lan & Qingyue Xiong & Linjie He & Chaoqun Ma, 2018. "Individual investment decision behaviors based on demographic characteristics: Case from China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(8), pages 1-16, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0201916
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201916
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