This paper shows that in financial markets with endogenous asset supply and demand, both rational and noise traders do coexist in the long run. The finding implies that financial markets are neither informationally nor allocationally efficient. While rational traders have a consistently higher...

In this paper the relation between aggregate mutual fund flows and stock market returns isanalysed with respect to three issues. First, we study the relation between fund flows andlong-term realized returns (past, current and future). Second, we find out that fund flows arenot driven by...

Despite a large and growing theoretical literature on flights to safety, there does not appear to exist an empirical characterization of flight-to-safety (FTS) episodes. Using only data on bond and stock returns, we identify and characterize flight to safety episodes for 23 countries. On...

Regelmäßige Veröffentlichungen makroökonomischer Kennzahlen, die von den Erwartungen der Marktteilnehmer abweichen, wirken sich in rund zwei Drittel der Fälle sofort auf den deutschen Aktienmarkt aus. Vor allem Daten zu Investitionen, Zahlen über die realwirtschaftlichen Aktivitäten oder...

Browser data from an approximately representative sample of individual investors offers a detailed account of their search for information, including how much time they spend on stock research, which stocks they research, what categories of information they seek, and when they gather information...

This study uses a unique dataset of transactions at the account level to construct investor networks. These networks are then analyzed to examine the role of the network centralization index in identifying the stock momentum stages. The empirical results demonstrate that the early stage strategy...

Are carbon emissions priced in equity markets? The literature is split with different approaches yielding conflicting results. We develop a stylized model showing that, if emissions are priced, stock returns depend on expected emissions and the product of the innovation in emissions and the...

We investigate how disposal non-financial wealth and its changes ndash; wealth shocks create exogenous demands and demands shocks for financial assets and demands a systematic pricing premium for risky assets. This premium lowers Lucas (1978)'s implied risk aversion. Responses of financial...

To the surprise of, in all likelihood, not only business journalists, the available evidence on the effects of political variables on both stock returns and volatility is scant and mixed. We investigate whether this weak and conflicting evidence may be due to limited sample sizes and too narrow...

Firm valuation has been an important domain of interest for finance. Most financial models, however, do not include customer-related metrics in this process. Studies in marketing have found that one particular customer metric, customer satisfaction, improves the ability to predict future cash...