This study examines empirically the relationship between individual investor's cognitive attitude and target returns of Korean and japanese individual investors. What are the differences of investment attitude both countries?
For these tests we appl...
This study examines empirically the relationship between individual investor's cognitive attitude and target returns of Korean and japanese individual investors. What are the differences of investment attitude both countries?
For these tests we apply the questionnaire method and Linear Structural Relations (LISREL) to inquire the structural relationships between the target returns and latent independence variable which are measured by the degree of information use, investment knowledge, reliability to the security company.
It suggests that the structural relationship model in Korean case is well - fitted as a results of the goodness of fit tests while the model in Japan case is less - fitted rather than the Korea model.
The maximum likelihood estimates which are measured between the latent independent variables and observation variables are not signifficantly different but the parameter. λ52 seems to be different with 0.577 for Korea. 1.071 for Japan. This means that Japanese investors have better knowledge about stock investment than Korean.