In their March 2018 paper entitled «Self -
Attribution Bias and Overconfidence Among Nonprofessional Traders», Daniel Czaja and Florian Röder employ data from a large European social trading platform to examine: (1) how self - enhancement (attributing successes to self) and self - protection (attributing failures to external factors) components of self - attribution bias affect non-professional trading performance; and, (2) how social trading platforms transfer any such effects to other non-profession
Attribution Bias and Overconfidence
Among Nonprofessional Traders», Daniel Czaja and Florian Röder employ data from a large European social trading platform to examine: (1) how self - enhancement (attributing successes to self) and self - protection (attributing failures to external factors) components of self -
attribution bias affect non-professional trading performance; and, (2) how social trading platforms transfer any such effects to other non-profession
attribution bias affect non-professional trading performance; and, (2) how social trading platforms transfer any such effects to other non-professional traders.