Julian Gulden untersucht Determinanten und Kontextfaktoren der Akzeptanz und Nutzung von Investment Management FinTechs. Auf Basis eines Modells mit theoretisch und praktisch hergeleiteten Einflussfaktoren werden Konsumentenbedürfnisse und Konsumentenverhalten analysiert. Es lässt sich...

We merge administrative information from a large German discount brokerage firm with regional data to examine if financial advisors improve portfolio performance. Our data track accounts of 32,751 randomly selected individual customers over 66 months and allow direct comparison of performance...

We use minutes from 17,000 financial advisory sessions and corresponding client portfolio data to study how client involvement affects advisor recommendations and portfolio outcomes. We find that advisors confronted with acquiescent clients stick to standards and recommend expensive but well...