A study of risk taking behavior in Malaysian stock market

dc.contributor.author	Sahul Hamid, Fazelina
dc.date.accessioned	2017-07-06T07:56:12Z
dc.date.available	2017-07-06T07:56:12Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.description.abstract	This research studied the risk taking behavior of individual investors in the Malaysian stock market. A theoretical framework was developed to test the risk taking behavior of individual investors. There were five independent variables in the proposed model - risk preference, inertia, less risk outcome history, problem framing and problem domain familiarity. Risk propensity and risk perception were the two mediating variables in this model. Hypotheses were tested with 162 investors from eight stockbroking companies. It was found out that risk preference and inertia had significant effect on risk propensity whereas problem domain familiarity had significant effect on risk perception. This study failed to confirm the mediating role of risk propensity and risk perception. Overall, inertia, less risk outcome history and risk propensity have been found to have significant effect on investors risk taking behavior	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4127
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Universiti Sains Malaysia	en_US
dc.subject	Stock market	en_US
dc.title	A study of risk taking behavior in Malaysian stock market	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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