This study investigates the effect of underlying risk preferences on analysts' work-related decisions. Specifically, we examine whether facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR), an innate personal characteristic that has been linked to financial risk tolerance, affects analysts' stock coverage...

We study three fundamental components of financial agency settings: Perception and communication of investment profiles, the interaction of agents’ and clients’ preferences, and the role of (non-)monetary incentives. The perception of investment profile terminology is very heterogeneous,...

An zahlreichen Wertpapiermärkten, an denen Aktien und Optionen gehandelt wer-den, sind professionelle Händler beauftragt, kontinuierlich verbindliche Kauf- und Verkaufsangebote an potentielle Nachfrager zu geben, um für alle interessierten Marktteilnehmer jederzeit einen sofortigen...

We conduct a study in which subjects trade stocks in an experimental market while we measure their brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging. All of the subjects trade in a suboptimal way. We use the neural data to test a “realization utility” explanation for their behavior....