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Alok Kumar
Researcher at University of Miami
Publications - 200
Citations - 15200
Alok Kumar is an academic researcher from University of Miami. The author has contributed to research in topics: Portfolio & Stock (geology). The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 170 publications receiving 13187 citations. Previous affiliations of Alok Kumar include University of Nebraska–Lincoln & University of Texas at Austin.
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Who Gambles in the Stock Market
TL;DR: This article found that people's propensity to gamble and their investment decisions are correlated, and that individual investors prefer stocks with lottery features, and like lottery demand, the demand for lottery-type stocks increases during economic downturns.
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Retail Investor Sentiment and Return Comovements
Alok Kumar,Charles M.C. Lee +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a database of more than 1.85 million transactions made by retail investors over a six-year period (1991-96) was used to show that these trades are systematically correlated, i.e., individuals buy (or sell) stocks in concert.
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Who Gambles in the Stock Market
TL;DR: In this article, the propensity to gamble and investment decisions are correlated, and individual investors prefer stocks with lottery features, and like lottery demand, the demand for lottery-type stocks increases during economic downturns.
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Retail Investor Sentiment and Return Comovements
Alok Kumar,Charles M.C. Lee +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a database of more than 1.85 million retail investor transactions over 1991-1996 was used to show that these trades are systematically correlated, that is, individuals buy (or sell) stocks in concert.
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Equity Portfolio Diversification
William N. Goetzmann,Alok Kumar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that U.S. individual investors hold under-diversified portfolios, where the level of under diversification is greater among younger, low-income, less-educated, and less-sophisticated investors.