{"title":"How Herding Bias Could be Derived from Individual Investor Types and Risk Tolerance?","authors":"Huei-Wen Lin","volume":66,"journal":"International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering","pagesStart":1395,"pagesEnd":1401,"ISSN":"1307-6892","URL":"https:\/\/publications.waset.org\/pdf\/11343","abstract":"
This paper is to clarify the relationship of individual investor types, risk tolerance and herding bias. The questionnaire survey investigation is conducted to collect 389 valid and voluntary individual investors and to examine how the risk tolerance plays as a mediator between four types of personality and herding bias. Based on featuring BB&K model and reviewing the prior literature of psychology, a linear structural model are constructed and further used to evaluate the path of herding formation through the analysis of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results showed that more impetuous investors would be prone to herding bias directly, but rather exhibit higher risk tolerance. However, risk tolerance would fully mediate between the level of confidence (i.e., confident or anxious) and herding bias, but not mediate between the method of action (careful or impetuous) for individual investors.<\/p>\r\n","references":"[1] D. G. Allen, R. W. Renn, K. R. Moffitt, and J. M. 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