Payments and investments are part of consumers’ everyday life and vital to society and its economic and social systems. As the evolution of FinTech has laid the foundation for the next generation of technical innovation in the financial service sectors, this chapter discusses examples of...

We examine the relation between households’ wealth and relative risk aversion (RRA) in two different frameworks: the Behavioral Portfolio Theory (BPT) and Merton’s consumption and portfolio choice model (CPCM). We apply the BPT to field data for the first time and show that the BPT provides...

This study analyzes investors’ perception of different amounts of information and its impact on stock price estimates. We initiate a questionnaire-based stock price forecast competition among 196 undergraduate students in business administration. We show that providing more information...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze whether differences in market-wide levels of investor personality influence experimental asset market outcomes in terms of limit orders, price levels and price bubbles.Design/methodology/approach: Investor personality is determined by a...

The success of trading strategies that lead to abnormal excess returns based on annual/monthly investment periods has recently declined significantly. We adopt the original frameworks of De Bondt and Thaler (J Finance 40(3):793–808, 1985) and Jegadeesh and Titman (J Finance 48(1):65–91,...

Robo-advisers enable investors to establish an automated rebalancing strategy for a portfolio usually consisting of stocks and bonds. Since households’ portfolios additionally include further frequently tradable assets like real estate funds, articles of great value and cash(-equivalents), we...