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...

Three Essays on Stock Market SeasonalityHyung-Suk Choi136 pagesDirected by Dr. Cheol S. EunIn chapter 1, we examine seasonality in returns to style portfolios, which serve as important benchmarks for asset allocation, and investigate its implications for investment. In doing so, we consider...

The understanding that investments are one of the key factors in the process of reproduction and are also one of the most unstable components of the aggregate demand stipulates the need for effective management of the investment process on the macro as well as micro levels. Investment process...

The main goal of this paper is to determine the empirically analyse the relationship between financial literacy and investment strategy of individual investors from the underdeveloped capital market of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The OECD INFE Core Questionnaire (2011) was mainly used for measuring...

The primary purpose of this research is to perform an empirical test using Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) in order to investigate the relationship between the Chinese stock market performance and domestic economic activity.China's stock market was established in early 1990s and has operated...

A popular theory of markets is that they are efficient: all available information is deemed to provide an accurate valuation of an asset at any time. In this paper, we consider how the content of market-related news articles contributes to such information. Specifically, we mine news articles...

The efficient market hypothesis states that the market incorporates all available information to provide an accurate valuation of the asset at any given time. However, most models for forecasting the return or volatility of assets completely disregard the arrival of asset specific news (i.e.,...

The efficient market hypothesis states that an efficient market immediately incorporates all available information into the price of the traded entity. It is well established that the stock market is not an efficient market as it consists of numerous traders with differing strategies and...

New U.K. pension accounting regulations significantly increase the exposure of the balance sheets of U.K. firms to volatilities in pension fund valuations. We examine whether the abnormal returns of firms that voluntarily used market-based pension discount rates are significantly different from...

Operations of publicly traded firms differ from privately owned firms because public firms' managers make decisions based on their own interests. In this paper, we study how stock market pressure may influence a manager's inventory and operational management. Our model is a straightforward...