Does the Internet Increase Trading? Evidence from Investor Behavior in 401(k) Plans

By James J. Choi, David Laibson, Andrew Metrick. 2000

160 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Finance

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In Accounting

1. V. Mendes
2. Margarida Abreu
3. Antonia Grohmann
4. C. Monticone
5. W. Walstad
6. Riccardo Calcagno
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In Finance

1. Željko Šević
2. V. Mendes
3. Dimitrios Kourtidis
4. Margarida Abreu
5. Prodromos D. Chatzoglou
6. Antonia Grohmann
7. C. Monticone
8. Riccardo Calcagno

Citations in the corpus

• Investors’ trading activity: A behavioural perspective and empirical results (2011, background): “On the other hand, Choi et al. (2002) have investigated the performance of online investors and found no significant difference in the performance of Web traders and phone traders.”
• Information, overconfidence and trading: Do the sources of information matter? (2012, background): “Choi, Laibson, and Metrick (2002) find that trading frequency increases after the introduction of an internet-based trading channel in two corporate 401(k) retirement savings plans.”
• Investor Psychology in Capital Markets: Evidence and Policy Implications (2001, unknown): “Also, there is some evidence that access to internet trading appears to encourage more active trading (Choi, Laibson, and Metrick (2000)).”