Crypto Assets – Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes

Ivana Dvorski Lacković – University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Department of Economics, Pavlinska 2, 42 000 Varaždin, Croatia

Mihael Kelčec – University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Pavlinska 2, 42 000 Varaždin, Croatia

Abstract: Crypto assets have raised a substantial interest among the general public, investment practitioners and academia upon its emergence. In this pa­per, we give a general overview of crypto assets and follow by presenting the re­sults of a survey conducted among the students population. The general aim of the survey was to find out about students’ knowledge about crypto assets and their attitudes about them. The results, based on the answers of 70 students, in­dicate that 41% of them have invested in crypto assets. The main reasons for making this investment are high expected profitability and friends’ incentives. Most students have shown very basic knowledge about crypto assets and the majority of them share conservative opinions about crypto asset investment and their regulation and are more prone to traditional investments. The main contribution of this paper is in the scientific exploration of this under-researched area of the younger and educated population’s attitudes on contemporary in­vestment types, but also in providing a practical insight into the target popu­lation’s crypto assets investment habits to make guidelines for future research.

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