Untersuchungsgegenstand und Arbeitsgang -- Primäre Abfindungsangebote und Börsenkurs bei Going Private-Transaktionen in Deutschland -- Going Private-Transaktionen am deutschen Kapitalmarkt — Eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme -- Motive für den Rückzug von der Börse — Ergebnisse einer...

Extant literature consistently documents that investors tilt their domestic equity portfolios towards regionally close stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors' local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead also determines their international investment...

This paper investigates if familiarity induced by ambiguity aversion can help explaining the local bias phenomenon among individual investors. Using geographic closeness as a proxy for investor familiarity, we find that investors pull out of (unfamiliar) remote stocks, and pour into (familiar)...