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Individual Judgment and Trust Formation: An Experimental Investigation of Online Financial Advice

Elderly couple researching pension options online

Julie Agnew, Hazel Bateman, Christine Eckert, Fedor Iskhakov, Jordan Louviere and Susan Thorp

Using an online incentivised discrete choice experiment, we study how well individuals judge financial advice and whether factors other than advice quality influence their evaluations. We find evidence that some individuals rely on extraneous signals to judge advice quality and observe some persistency in adviser choice over time.

 

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