TY - JOUR A1 - Etheber, Thomas A1 - Hennen, Dominik A1 - Rochow, Tilman A1 - Hackethal, Andreas A1 - Meyer, Steffen T1 - Individual investors trading and performance around earnings announcements of volatile and short-sale constraint stocks T2 - EFL quarterly : an E-Finance Lab publication N2 - INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS ARE REPEATEDLY FOUND TO UNDERPERFORM RELATIVE TO A MARKET INDEX. BESIDES EXCESSIVE TRADING, LITTLE IS KNOWN WHEN RETAIL INVESTORS COLLECTIVELY LOSE. THIS ARTICLE SHOWS THAT TRADING IN SHORT-SELLING CONSTRAINED, VOLATILE STOCKS AROUND EARNINGS ANNOUNCEMENTS IS COSTLY TO INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS. THE EFFECT IS PARTICULARLY PRONOUNCED FOR LESS SOPHISTICATED INVESTORS. Y1 - 2012 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/57928 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-579283 SN - 1866-1238 VL - 2012 IS - 4 SP - 4 EP - 5 PB - E-Finance Lab e.V. CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -