---
_id: '22205'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: In January 2021, the GameStop stock was the epicenter of the first case of
    predatory trading initiated by retail investors. We use brokerage accounts to
    study who participated in this GameStop frenzy and how they performed. We investigate
    the extent to which investors’ personal and trading characteristics differ from
    the general population of retail investors. GameStop traders had a history of
    investing in speculative instruments, including stocks with lottery-like features.
    They were also more likely to close their positions before the peak of the bubble.
    At the onset of the frenzy, numerous retail investors also shorted GameStop. Overall,
    our results indicate that the GameStop frenzy was not a pure digital protest against
    Wall Street but speculative trading by a group of retail investors, in line with
    their prior high-risk trading behavior.
article_number: '102140'
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Tim
  full_name: Hasso, Tim
  last_name: Hasso
- first_name: Daniel
  full_name: Müller, Daniel
  id: '50569'
  last_name: Müller
- first_name: Matthias
  full_name: Pelster, Matthias
  id: '67265'
  last_name: Pelster
  orcid: ' https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5740-2420'
- first_name: Sonja
  full_name: Warkulat, Sonja
  id: '67243'
  last_name: Warkulat
citation:
  ama: Hasso T, Müller D, Pelster M, Warkulat S. Who participated in the GameStop
    frenzy? Evidence from brokerage accounts. <i>Finance Research Letters</i>. doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140">10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140</a>
  apa: Hasso, T., Müller, D., Pelster, M., &#38; Warkulat, S. (n.d.). Who participated
    in the GameStop frenzy? Evidence from brokerage accounts. <i>Finance Research
    Letters</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Hasso_Müller_Pelster_Warkulat, title={Who participated in the
    GameStop frenzy? Evidence from brokerage accounts}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140">10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140</a>},
    number={102140}, journal={Finance Research Letters}, author={Hasso, Tim and Müller,
    Daniel and Pelster, Matthias and Warkulat, Sonja} }'
  chicago: Hasso, Tim, Daniel Müller, Matthias Pelster, and Sonja Warkulat. “Who Participated
    in the GameStop Frenzy? Evidence from Brokerage Accounts.” <i>Finance Research
    Letters</i>, n.d. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140</a>.
  ieee: T. Hasso, D. Müller, M. Pelster, and S. Warkulat, “Who participated in the
    GameStop frenzy? Evidence from brokerage accounts,” <i>Finance Research Letters</i>.
  mla: Hasso, Tim, et al. “Who Participated in the GameStop Frenzy? Evidence from
    Brokerage Accounts.” <i>Finance Research Letters</i>, 102140, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140">10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140</a>.
  short: T. Hasso, D. Müller, M. Pelster, S. Warkulat, Finance Research Letters (n.d.).
date_created: 2021-05-14T11:55:12Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:55:29Z
department:
- _id: '186'
- _id: '578'
doi: 10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140
jel:
- G11
keyword:
- Predatory Trading
- Retail Investors
- Trading Behavior
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140
publication: Finance Research Letters
publication_status: accepted
quality_controlled: '1'
related_material:
  link:
  - relation: research_paper
    url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102140
status: public
title: Who participated in the GameStop frenzy? Evidence from brokerage accounts
type: journal_article
user_id: '67265'
year: '2021'
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