Newspapers and weekly magazines catering to the investing crowd often rank funds according to the returns generated in the past. Aside from satisfying sheer curiosity, these numbers are probably also the basis on which investors pick a fund to invest in. In this article, we fully characterize...

In this experimental study of tax evasion and its determinants participants earn their income in a complex stochastic intertemporal environment including the possibility to invest into a risky asset. The earned income has to be declared in four tax returns which are randomly verified. If tax...

Privatanlegern erschien die Finanzkrise von 2008 noch als kurzer Schneesturm, der bald vorüber sein würde. Doch mittlerweile ist die gesamte Weltwirtschaft erstarrt. Mit negativen Konsequenzen für unsere Privatvermögen, die langsam, aber sicher schrumpfen. Was können wir tun, um unser Geld...

Hier erläutern Finanzwissenschaftler und Professoren/Professorin anhand eines Lebenszyklusmodells wie sparen und entsparen gestaltet werden können. Dabei legen sie theoretischen Überlegungen und Ergebnisse aus Forschung und Wissenschaft zugrunde, die dem Privatanleger die letztendlich...

Zum Standardwerk avanciertes Handbuch für die Investition in Indexfonds und ETFs, welches sich anhaltender Beliebtheit erfreut und für den ernsthaften Anleger unverzichtbar ist. Detaillierter Überblick über die Funktion von Wertpapiermärkten, verhängnisvolle Anlagefehler, Grundprinzipien...

According to the Sharpe-Lintner capital asset pricing model, expected rates of return on individual stocks differ only because of their different levels of non-diversifiable risk (beta). However, Fama/French (1992) show that the two variables size and book-to-market ratio capture the...

The so-called 'Monday effect ' has been found for various stock markets of the world. The empirical finding that Monday returns are significantly smaller than returns measured for the remaining days of the week calls the efficiency hypothesis for pricing processes operating on stock markets into...

Although stock splits seem to be a purely cosmetic event, there exists ample empirical evidence from the United States that stock splits are associated with abnormal returns on both the announcement and the execution day, and additionally with an increase in variance following the ex-day. This...

Let a process SI , ... ,ST obey the conditionally heteroskedastic equation St = Vt Et whcrc Et is a random noise and Vt is the volatility coefficient which in turn obeys an autoregression type equation log v t = w + a S t- l + nt with an additional noise nt. We consider the situation which the...