The behavioral origins of the stylized facts of financial returns have been addressed in a growing body of agent-based models of financial markets. While the traditional efficient market viewpoint explains all statistical properties of returns by similar features of the news arrival process, the...

This study examines whether investor reactions are sensitive to the recent direction and/orvolatility of underlying market movements. We find dividend change announcements elicit agreater change in stock price when the nature of the news (good or bad) goes against the grain ofthe recent market...

Die Dissertation leistet einen Beitrag zur Systematisierung konzeptioneller Überlegungen zur Altersvorsorgeforschung und erweitert die Erkenntnisse auf diesem Gebiet um vielfältige empirische Befunde hinsichtlich der individuellen Sichtweise der Altersvorsorge. Hierfür wurde ein theoretisch...

My dissertation consists of three essays. The central theme of these essays is the psychological factors and biases that affect the portfolio allocation decision. The first essay entitled, “Are women more risk-averse than men?” examines the gender difference in risk aversion as revealed by...

Ausgehend von den Erkenntnissen des Behavioral Finance wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit die Persönlichkeit als Erklärungsansatz für interindividuelle Unterschiede im Anlegerverhalten an der Börse untersucht. Die Darstellung derartiger Zusammenhänge dient dem Ziel, Investoren Einblicke in...

Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der praktischen Umsetzung der Behavioral-Finance-Theorie im Bereich des Asset Managements. Hierzu werden zunächst die wesentlichen verhaltensorientierten Anlagestrategien gemäß Fachliteratur identifiziert. Auf Basis von Regressionsansätzen wird anschließend...

This study examines capital structure of hospitality firms from a behavioral perspective based on the hubris theory that emphasizes the effect of managerial overconfidence on corporate decisions. Specifically, we investigate the relationship between manager overconfidence and financing...

Consumer sentiment has the ability to provide researchers with many avenues to test existingFinance and Economic theories. Chapter 1 introduces the issues that I seek to explore within the area ofBehavioral Finance. Chapter 2 utilizes thirty years of consumer sentiment data to explore...

This dissertation consists of three essays examining informational and behavioral frictions in international financial and capital markets. Chapter II investigates whether characteristics of the home country capital market environment, such as information disclosure and investor rights...

In the first chapter of this dissertation, entitled “Signaling and Value Creation in Mergers,” I analyze the acquirers in both withdrawn and completed merger deals to disentangle the effects of signaling from those of target valuation and expected synergies. Completed stock (cash) acquirers...