Erik Wengström

Studierektor forskarutbildningen, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Professor

Delegation Decisions in Finance

Författare

Felix Holzmeister
Martin Holmén
Michael Kirchler
Matthias Stefan
Erik Wengström

Summary, in English

Based on an online experiment with a sample of finance professionals and participants from the general population (acting as clients), we examine drivers and motives of clients’ choices to delegate investment decisions to agents. We find that clients favor delegation to investment algorithms, followed by delegation to finance professionals compensated with an aligned incentive scheme, and lastly to finance professionals receiving a fixed payment for investing on behalf of others. We show that trust in investment algorithms or finance professionals, and clients’ propensity to shift blame on others increase the likelihood of delegation, whereas clients’ own decision-making quality is associated with a decrease in delegation frequency.

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