Yigitcan Karabulut

Yigitcan Karabulut is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He is also a Research Fellow of the Network for Studies on Pension, Aging and Retirement (Netspar), and a Network Associate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Prior to joining the faculty of Frankfurt School, he was a faculty member at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM), and an Associate Member of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) in the Netherlands.
Karabulut’s research interests are in the areas of household finance, behavioral finance, and empirical asset pricing. His research has been published in leading finance and management journals. It is also featured in various international media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, BBC, and Spiegel. He received his doctoral degree from Goethe University Frankfurt.

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Consumer Behavior in Financial Markets 2020 “Leveraging Overconfidence” Brad M. Barber (Graduate School of Management UC) Davis Xing Huang. Discussant: Yigitcan Karabulut

Psychologists and economists have studied overconfidence for many years. It is perhaps the most well-established bias towards which human judgement is vulnerable. Overconfidence can influence behavioural choices in profound ways. Theoretically, researchers know that overconfident investors' are likely to trade too aggressively, diversify less and perform worse. Listen to speaker Xing Huang present the main findings from their paper and how overconfidence relates to margin investors, followed by discussant Yigitcan Karabulut.