We examine a certain class of new financial instruments which are designed aslotteries on the outcome of prominent sports events like the Soccer World Cup 2006. We areable to explain why there might be a positive demand for such sports-related financialinstruments even if we take riskless...

Behavioral finance theory is used for the foreign exchange market toshow, that the profit of a typical trader is mainly due to the higher number of correctpositions. Using behavioral finance the amount of loss trades is larger than60%, however the individual gains are larger than the losses...

Ziel des Beitrags war es, den Forschungsansatz der Behavioral Finance in seinemaktuellen Entwicklungsstand darzustellen und sein Potential für die Weiterentwicklungder Finanztheorie zu analysieren. Dabei wurde zunächst festgestellt,dass die vorherrschende Kapitalmarkttheorie bisher nicht in...

Durch die Finanzmarktkrise sind zahlreicheVerbraucher dramatisch geschädigt worden.Viele private Anleger wurden in jüngsterVergangenheit zu risikoreichen Anlageproduktenüberredet, die häufi g den Bankenund Beratern hohe Provisionen sicherten, abernicht auf die Anlagebedürfnisse der...

In the experimental scenario several agents repeatedly invest in n (n _ 2)state-specic assets. The evolutionarily stable and equilibrium (Blume andEasley, 1992) portfolio for this situation requires to distribute funds accordingto the constant probabilities of the various states. The dierent...

The results of an asset market experiment, in which 64 subjects trade two assets oneight markets in a computerized continuous double auction, indicate that objectivelyirrelevant information influences trading behavior. Moreover, positively and negativelyframed information leads to a particular...

An empirically well-established finding is that equity portfolios are concentratedin the domestic equity market of the investor. Previous theoreticaland empirical analyses have mainly focused on institutional explanations andlargely neglected individual behavior. In this study we report the...

This paper investigates (i) the robustness of hindsight bias in experimental assetmarkets, (ii) the time invariance of the different experimental risk elicitationmethods of certainty equivalents and binary lottery choices, and (iii) their correspondence.The results of our within-subjects...

We experimentally test overconfidence in investment decisions by offering participants the possibility to substitute their own for alternative investment choices.Overall, 149 subjects participated in two experiments, one with just one risky asset, the other with two risky assets. Overconfidence...