In this paper we investigate the spillover effects of FOREX and equity markets for USA, Brazil, Italy, Germany and Canada on the basis of daily data. We test for contagion co-movements for the period 2010-2018 post global financial crisis, using the trivariate AR-diagonal BEKK model. The...

We show that preferred investment styles can be determined by the big five personality traits. Using this result, we build a tool that recommends investment styles. The resulting recommendations are significantly higher rated than random recommendations.We collected detailed personality traits...

We examine whether and how German and US investment professionals use corporate social responsibility (hereafter, CSR) information when making personal investment decisions and recommendations to clients. Using an experiment, we find that both German and US investment professionals use CSR...

This paper analyzes how individual investors respond to inflation. We introduce a unique dataset containing information on local inflation and security portfolios of more than 2,000 clients of a German bank between 1920 and 1924, covering the hyperinflation. We find that individual investors buy...

Equity returns are not very predictable despite the presence of many well-documented behavioral biases and risk factors. Why? We collect a comprehensive global dataset covering over 24,000 tradable equities and representing more than 99.9% of the market cap on developed exchanges. Analyzing...

Using data from a European app-based investment funds aiming at younger and first-time investors, we find that this group acts surprisingly “smart” when it comes to investing: The analyzed group of mostly under-30 German and Austrian investors clearly prefers a long-term continuous...

Conducting a stated choice experiment on German retail investors, we analyze how market participants use and react to sustainability information. We find that the general avoidance of assets with lagging sustainability records is more meaningful to investors than the focus on financial...

What drives investors’ sensitivity to sustainable investment fees? We conduct a large-scale online experiment with samples of individual investors in five European countries. We explore two main channels for investors' sensitivities to fees. First, investors might be willing to pay higher fees...

Do women invest differently than men? Using the Deutsche Bundesbank Panel on Household Finances (PHF), we replicate earlier findings that participation in stocks and the conditional share held in equity are generally lower among women than among men, even when we account for risk aversion and...