Does the Internet Lead to Increased Trading by Your Average Investor? [Archive.org URL]

Given the ease and availability of online trading over the past several years, just how has the behavior of average investors changed? Are these individuals trading online more, and more frequently, or does their natural conservatism distance them from the lure of trading on the web? Finance professor Andrew Metrick and two colleagues from Harvard University find some answers in a recent research paper titled, “Does the Internet Increase Trading? Evidence from Investor Behavior in 401(K) Plans.”

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