Zugegeben ist das Studium von Bilanzen langweiliger als das Errechnen von Kurschancen mit Hilfe von Charts. Die Folge einer solchen Bequemlichkeit ist aber, dass elementare Fachbegriffe wie Kurs-Gewinn-Verhältnis, Cashflow oder Dividendenrendite breiten Kreisen von Anlageberatern unbekannt...

Using analysts' stock recommendations this paper shows gender heterogeneity in investment advice. The odds for female financial analysts to issue optimistic recommendations are much lower than the odds for male analysts. However, an investor cannot profit from the observed gender differences....

This study investigates whether analysts who pay attention to investor sentiment issue more or less profitable stock recommendations than their peers. We find that analysts whose stock recommendations are positively correlated with recent or future investor sentiment tend to issue relatively...

The shape of the flow-performance relationship in the hedge fund industry is not constant over time, but varies across market conditions. We employ a switching regression approach to explain quarterly hedge fund flows, based on two regimes where either inflows or outflows are dominating,...

We employ a dataset of Europe-wide-sold and US-sold equity mutual funds to investigate how flows of assets relate to past performance in the past decade and a half. We show that the flow-performance relationship changes in time and differs in Europe and US. We find that the typical for the US,...

We perform a large-scale empirical analysis of pairs trading, a popular relative-value arbitrage approach. We start with a cross-country study of 34 international stock markets and uncover that abnormal returns are a persistent phenomenon. We then construct a comprehensive U.S. data set to...