TuneUp Original Research

Market Microstructure
Do Individual Investors Ignore Transaction Costs?
Using ~800,000 U.S. and ~2,000,000 Finnish household transactions, this paper shows individual investors with longer holding periods choose less liquid stocks, challenging the notion that they ignore non-salient trading costs.
May 15, 2026
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