This paper investigates the role of published stock recommendations in print and online media as investor sentiment in the near-term German stock market. In line with extant literature on other sentiment measures, vector autoregressions reveal that past stock returns drive today's sentiment, but...

This paper investigates the role of published stock recommendations in print and online media as investor sentiment in the near-term German stock market. In line with extant literature on other sentiment measures, vector autoregressions reveal that past stock returns drive today's sentiment, but...

This paper investigates the role of published stock recommendations in print and online media as investor sentiment in the near-term German stock market. In line with extant literature on other sentiment measures, vector autoregressions reveal that past stock returns drive today's sentiment, but...

This paper investigates the role of published stock recommendations as institutional investor sentiment in the near-term German stock market using stock recommendations published in both print and online media. In line with extant literature for other countries, vector autoregressive analysis...

This paper examines the composition of supervisory boards of 41 large German banks in 1999-2010. We find that the supervisory board structure reflects both outside control by major shareholders and inside control by other stakeholders. The largest group among non-employee board members is made...

With regard to retirement savings individual investors tend to hold large positions of their wealth in riskless assets, although equity products offer higher returns. In this article we study a behavioral portfolio model which captures this phenomenon by considering two behavioral aspects: fear...