A Little Financial Data is a Dangerous Thing
Taha Havakhor is a Professor of Information Systems at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. In a recent study, he looked at how retail investors used data from a financial API – that’s an Application Programming Interface – to inform their investment decisions. He found that, when using stock pricing data pulled from an API, consumer investors were prone to making riskier investment choices. He tells us why in the latest episode of the McGill Delve podcast.
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