Effects of social media on retail investors’ trading behavior and its capital market consequences

Speaker: Kobilov Botir is a PhD candidate at Harvard University. His current work focuses on issues of corporate governance; behavioral biases, beliefs and expectations that influence financial decisions of capital markets participants; and how information and its disclosure plays an important role in mitigating them. Specifically, Botir is focusing on retail investors, their trading behavior driven by echo-chamber effect and capital market consequences.

Botir is also a teaching fellow for courses taught at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.

Botir holds Master’s degree in Economics from Duke University. Earlier in his career, Botir worked as a lead economist at the Central Bank of Uzbekistan.