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Review of Financial Studies, doi:10.1093/rfs/hhj032
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Investor Overconfidence and Trading Volume

Meir Statman 1, Steven Thorley 2 *, and Keith Vorkink 2
1 Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
2 Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Steven Thorley, E-mail: steven.thorley{at}byu.edu


  Abstract

The proposition that investors are overconfident about their valuation and trading skills can explain high observed trading volume. With biased self-attribution, the level of investor overconfidence and thus trading volume varies with past returns. We test the trading volume predictions of formal overconfidence models and find that share turnover is positively related to lagged returns for many months. The relationship holds for both market-wide and individual security turnover, which we interpret as evidence of investor overconfidence and the disposition effect, respectively. Security volume is more responsive to market return shocks than to security return shocks, and both relationships are more pronounced in small-cap stocks and in earlier periods where individual investors hold a greater proportion of shares.


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