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title: Retail Investors’ Behavior in the Digital Age: How Digitalization is Impacting Investment Decisions
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4506007/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4506007
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4506007
featured: 2023-07-12
citations: 6
topic: Other
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# Retail Investors’ Behavior in the Digital Age: How Digitalization is Impacting Investment Decisions

The Impact of Digitalization: Technological innovations like mobile apps and roboadvisors have transformed retail investing, making it more accessible but also increasing investment biases, though roboadvisors can help minimize errors.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4506007
- Identifier: SSRN 4506007
- Released: 2023-07-10
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 7 (2023-07-12): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-07-12/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 6
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Other

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