This study offers the unique opportunity to analyze how an unprecedented crisis such as the September 11 tragedy in uences expected returns and volatility forecasts of individual investors. Via e-mail, we asked a randomly selected group of individual investors with accounts at a German online...

Empirical research documents that temporary trends in stock pricemovements exist. Moreover, riding a trend can be a profitable investment strategy. (...)

The main goal of this paper is to present various descriptive statistics on demographic information, investment strategy, portfolio positions, and trading activity.

Behavoiral finance as a subdiscipline of behavorial economics is finance incorporating findings from psychology and sociology into its theories.

... Diese Fallstudie befasst sich mit der gezielten Entwicklung eines Finanzproduktes für eine bestimmte Kundengruppe des Bankhauses Cogni-Invest. In den Entwicklungsprozess fließen dabei die Wünsche der Kunden ein, die mit Hilfe einer Befragung ermittelt werden

We suggest an experimental design that can help opening the black box of investor behavior by documenting a channel of how biases affect portfolio performance. We study two of the most important investor biases (overreaction and overconfidence), show how they are related, and analyze their...

Overconfidence is the most prevalent judgment bias. Several studies find that overconfidence can lead to suboptimal decisions on the part of investors, managers, or politicians. This chapter explains which effects are usually summarized as overconfidence, shows how to measure these effects, and...