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Psychological dispositions and trading behaviour
Bruno Biais, Denis Hilton, Karine Mazurier and Sebastien Pouget

February 2002

Abstract
We present a methodology that allows us to directly measure psychological characteristic and evaluate their causal effect on economic behaviour in a controlled environment. We thus measure the degree of overconfidence and self monitoring of 184 participants in an experimental financial market under asymmetric information.

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