Investment Decisions with Endogeneity: A Dirichlet Tree Analysis (original) (raw)

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Ignoring endogeneity when assessing investors’ decisions carries the risk of biased estimates for the influence of exogeneous marketing variables. This study shows how to overcome this challenge by using Pólya trees in the quantification of impacts on investors’ decisions. A total of 2255 investors recruited for this study received and opened a digital marketing newsletter about investing daily. Given the nature of investors’ decisions characterized by heterogeneity and endogeneity, the response model is assessed with the Dirichlet process mixture and estimated with the Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Digital marketing substantially exceeds the impact of investor experience, but both have a significant positive impact on investors’ trading volume. Findings obtained with the Dirichlet process mixture as a flexible model indicate that digital marketing even with latent endogenous factors makes an underlying contribution to the investors’ actions in the stock market.

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Figure 1. Research conceptual model. Figure 1 illustrates that we consider X, (the daily average calculated over four years newsletters opened by individual investors) and X2 (the length of time investor is active in the capital market from the date the account is opened) as exogenous and their influences on y as the response variable. This connection will be evaluated by DPM. 3.2. Endogeneity in the Model Specification and Dirichlet Process Mixture Model

Figure 2. The 3D plot of data according to the conceptual decision model.

Acceptance rate for metropolis step = 0.256069, 0, 0.4333262, 0.4516119. Table 1. Bayesian semiparametric regression model and the highest posterior density.

Figure 3. Histories and plots of metropolis steps.

Table Al. MCMC parameters.

Table A2. Posterior predictive distribution (log).

Figure A1. Histories and histograms of metropolis steps. Histories and Histograms of Metropolis Steps

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