IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/jfinqa/v57y2022i7p2724-2765_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Taxing the Disposition Effect: The Impact of Tax Awareness on Investor Behavior

Author

Listed:
  • Bazley, William J.
  • Moore, Jordan
  • Murren Vosse, Melina

Abstract

Standard portfolio choice models predict that investors consider the tax implications of trading. However, individuals are disposed toward realizing gains and holding losing investments, behaviors that worsen their performance. We show, in an experimental market, that increasing tax salience reduces the disposition effect between 22% and 47%, leading to higher portfolio balances without increasing total trading activity. Using field data, we find that investors’ disposition is sensitive to taxes around tax rate changes when taxes are likely salient. Our analysis demonstrates that increasing tax awareness can affect households’ portfolio choices, which suggests policy implications for improving financial decision-making.

Suggested Citation

  • Bazley, William J. & Moore, Jordan & Murren Vosse, Melina, 2022. "Taxing the Disposition Effect: The Impact of Tax Awareness on Investor Behavior," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 57(7), pages 2724-2765, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:57:y:2022:i:7:p:2724-2765_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022109022000564/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:57:y:2022:i:7:p:2724-2765_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/jfq .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.