Influence of the Consideration of Future Consequences on Financial Behavior: The Case of Japanese Individual Investors

  • Toru Suehiro Graduate School of Economics, Hosei University
  • Koichi Takeda Faculty of Economics, Hosei University
  • Takashi Kozu Ricoh Institute of Sustainability and Business
  • Toshihiko TAKEMURA 4Faculty of Economics, Josai University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v11i4(J).2920
Keywords: Ratio of risky asset holding, individual investors, Web-based survey, Behavioral finance, Japan, Consideration of future consequences.

Abstract

We analyze the impact of the “consideration of future consequences” (CFC) on the amount of financial assets and the liabilities of individual investors by applying a Tobit model to data from a web-based survey. We find that impatient individuals with high CFC have fewer deposits and financial asset balances. We also examine the influence of the CFC-immediate (CFC-I) and CFC-future (CFC-F) sub-indicators often used in psychology as well as CFC on financial asset balances and liabilities. CFC-I show concern with immediate consequences and also an index related to ego depletion. We find that the higher the CFC-I, the lower the amount of deposits and financial asset balances. However, CFC-F is a sub-indicator designating lack of concern with future consequences; thus, the higher the CFC-F, the larger the debt.

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Published
2019-09-26
How to Cite
Toru Suehiro, Koichi Takeda, Takashi Kozu, & Toshihiko TAKEMURA. (2019). Influence of the Consideration of Future Consequences on Financial Behavior: The Case of Japanese Individual Investors. Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, 11(4(J), 54-60. https://doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v11i4(J).2920
Issue
Vol 11 No 4(J) (2019)
Section
Research Paper

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