Volume : 5, Issue : 1, January - 2016

A Study on Association of Gender of Investors And Herd Behaviour of Investors

Anurag Shukla

Abstract :

<p>&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Behavioural finance is an evolving field which studies how psychological factors influences decision making under conditions of uncertainty. It attempts to study how emotions and cognitive errors influence individual investors&amp;amp;rsquo; behaviour. This research papers aims to find out the association of herd behaviour and gender of investors. The association has been examined on by taking views of investors that they follow trading volume during trading in stock market or not. Primary data for analysis was gathered by distributing structured questionnaire among individual investors and conclusion has been derived from the data by applying chi-square test.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>