The authors analyze financial interactions between chartists with bounded leverage and fundamentalists within a heterogeneous agent model, focusing on the role of fundamentalists to stabilize prices. While many related studies are solely based on simulations, the authors analytically prove that...

Exchange-traded Funds (ETFs) are easy to understand, cost-efficient ways of investing in asset markets that have become very popular for both institutional and retail investors. The dynamics of the index and its underlying assets depend among others on the different types of traders in the...

By means of expert interviews and an online survey experiment among sales representatives, the positive potential of using gamification applications within B2B sales is shown. Based on the empirical results and a derived B2B sales framework, recommendations which gamification elements to apply...

The efficient market hypothesis is highly discussed in economic literature. In its strongest form, it states that there are no price trends. When weakening the non-trending assumption to arbitrary short, small, and fully unknown trends, we mathematically prove for a specific class of...

Niedrige oder sogar negative Realzinsen bestimmen seit Beginn der Krise die Kapitalmärkte in der Eurozone. Davon profitieren vor allem die Staatshaushalte in Ländern mit hoher öffentlicher Neuverschuldung. Sparer haben demgegenüber Schwierigkeiten, ihr Kapital rentierlich anzulegen. Die...

This paper examines if US monetary policy responds to asset prices. Using real-time data we estimate a Taylor-type rule with an asset price variable. This variable refers to real estate prices, considering that those exhibit an important share in households' asset portfolio. Moreover, especially...

Die Federal Reserve ist laut dem Federal Reserve Act unter anderem dazu verpflichtet, stabile Preise zu gewährleisten. Das Erreichen dieses geldpolitischen Ziels wird offiziell auf Ebene der Verbraucherpreise angesiedelt. Darüber hinaus bekräftigt die FED, dass kein explizites Asset Price...