Apesteguía, JoséOechssler, JörgWeidenholzer, SimonUniversitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa2024-11-142024-11-142018-07-23Management Science, forthcominghttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/44770Copy trading allows traders in social networks to receive information on the success of other agents in financial markets and to directly copy their trades. Internet platforms like eToro, ZuluTrade, and Tradeo have attracted millions of users in recent years. The present paper studies the implications of copy trading for the risk taking of investors. Implementing a novel experimental financial asset market, we show that providing information on the success of others leads to a significant increase in risk taking of subjects. This increase in risk taking is even larger when subjects are provided with the option to directly copy others. We conclude that copy trading leads to excessive risk taking.application/pdfengL'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative CommonsCopy trading<resourceType xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" resourceTypeGeneral="Other">info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper</resourceType><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">copy trading</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">financial markets</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">social networks</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">imitation; experiment.</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">Behavioral and Experimental Economics</subject><rights xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3">info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</rights>