Are you Paying too Much for Financial Advice? The Transparency-Revenue Tension in Social Trading

In this seminar, Professor Vijay Mookerjee from Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas will share his insights on Social Trading – an emerging paradigm in the spirit of the sharing economy. Based on the study detailed in his recent paper "Are you Paying too Much for Financial Advice? The Transparency-Revenue Tension in Social Trading", Prof. Mookerjee will discuss with the audience how he addressed the simple, but fundamental problem in copy trading by determining the optimal policy for releasing trade information.