Investor's overconfidence and trading volume in the Tunisian market Online publication date: Tue, 23-May-2017
by Wafa Haj Mohamed; Faten Lakhal; Aymen Ajina
EuroMed J. of Management (EMJM), Vol. 2, No. 1, 2017
Abstract: A sample of 35 Tunisian companies is designed to study the relationship between investors' overconfidence and trading volume by distinguishing it from the disposition effect. We use VAR model in two versions. VAR market model shows a significant and positive correlation between past market return and current market turnover. This result validates overconfidence hypothesis and disposition effect. Therefore, we use a securities VAR model that shows a significant and positive correlation between past market return and current securities turnover in presence of securities returns for some companies. This result validates overconfidence hypothesis and not disposition effect. Other companies are characterised by a disposition effect and not by overconfidence since securities VAR model shows a significant and positive correlation between individual past returns and their current turnover in presence of past market returns. We conclude that the exchange activity is not a simple summation of disposition effect of individual securities.
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