This study analyzes investors' perception of placebic information and its impact on stock price estimates. We initiate a questionnaire-based stock price forecast competition among 196 undergraduate students in business administration. We show that placebic information increases the perceived...

Andrea Hafenstein untersucht die Einflussfaktoren auf die Verwendung von Nachhaltigkeitsinformationen und die Entscheidung von Anlegern, in nachhaltige Unternehmen zu investieren. Zudem analysiert sie, ob eine Unterteilung von Nachhaltigkeitsinformationen in ökologische, soziale und governance...

The paper analyses the tendency of investors to realize gains too early and the reluctance to liquidate losing positions. Analysis is based on the complete transaction data of the Estonian stock market. The Cox proportional hazard model along with ratio analysis is used to measure the...

A great proportion of stock dynamics can be explained using publicly available information. The relationship between dynamics and public information may be of nonlinear character. In this paper we offer an approach to stock picking by employing so-called decision trees and applying them to XETRA...