We use intraday stock index return data from both sides of the Atlantic during overlapping trading hours to analyze the dynamic interactions between European and US stock markets. We are particularly interested in differences of information transmission before, during, and after the financial...

This paper tests the old adage and investment strategy "cut your losses and let your profits run" for randomly chosen portfolios comprised of large US stocks. We find that "cut your losses" clearly underperforms the buy-and-hold strategy. The results hold for monthly, quarterly and annual data...

I propose a strategy for the empirical evaluation of prospect theory that links concepts from the literature on asset pricing with heterogeneous agents to behavioral finance. I develop an asset pricing model in which two representative agents maximize their utility by investing in risky assets....

I present evidence that large individual income changes can help explaining the size and value premium in a cross-section of portfolio returns. I develop a tail risk measure, the Idiosyncratic Income Risk Factor and estimate it on US income data. The results show that the extreme income shocks...

We examine price discovery in the Credit Default Swap and corporate bond market. By using a Markov switching framework we are able to analyze the dynamic behavior of the information shares during tranquil and crisis periods. The results show that price discovery takes place mostly on the CDS...

We use transfer entropy to quantify information flows between financial markets and propose a suitable bootstrap procedure for statistical inference. Transfer entropy is a model-free measure designed as the Kullback-Leibler distance of transition probabilities. Our approach allows to determine,...

This paper studies the dynamics of stock market volatility and retail investor attention measured by internet search queries. We find a strong co-movement of stock market indices' realized volatility and the search queries for their names. Furthermore, Granger causality is bi-directional: high...

This paper studies the dynamics of stock market volatility and retail investor attention measured by internet search queries. We find a strong co-movement of stock market indices' realized volatility and the search queries for their names. Furthermore, Granger causality is bi-directional: high...