Capital Market Investors’ Attitudes in Bangladesh: Evidence and Policy Implications

Kazi Mostafa Arif; Md. Alamgir Hossain Bhuiya

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Capital Market Investors’ Attitudes in Bangladesh: Evidence and Policy Implications

Kazi Mostafa Arif, Md. Alamgir Hossain Bhuiya

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The aim of the study is to examine the effect of behavioral biases on stock market investors’ decision making in Dhaka Stock Exchange. We focused on three well-documented biases i.e., disposition effect, herd behaviour and gambler’s fallacy. In this study we utilized primary data which were collected through our survey questionnaire. Based on these information, descriptive statistics were employed to construct different bias grades. We explored that women do not actively participate in security market as seen on interview time although women also invest in the security market, but most of the activities in the security market are carried out by men. It is also stimulating that seventy seven percent respondents are within the economic active age group, of 30-50 years which thus indicates a positive sign of the market. Moreover, the data reveals that the greater portion of our investors are bachelor graduate. In addition to that the most of the individual investors’ experience are within 3 to 10 years. After building bias grade of the above mentioned behavioral biases it can be settled that our participants are, on average, moderately affected by behavioral biases. And lastly, a hypothesis was inspected that the behavioral biases are more obvious for less experienced investors but our results support this hypothesis weakly. As we conceive that investors do not learn from experience and perform illogically in the stock market.

DOI	10.11648/j.ijefm.20160406.15
Published in	International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences (Volume 4, Issue 6, December 2016)
Page(s)	344-348
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Behavioral Biases, Disposition Effect, Herd Behaviour, Gambler’s Fallacy

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Kazi Mostafa Arif, Md. Alamgir Hossain Bhuiya. Capital Market Investors’ Attitudes in Bangladesh: Evidence and Policy Implications. Int J Econ Finance Manag Sci. 2016;4(6):344-348. doi: 10.11648/j.ijefm.20160406.15

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Kazi Mostafa Arif

Department of Economics, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh
Md. Alamgir Hossain Bhuiya

Department of Economics, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh

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