Ecologically and socially responsible financial products and services are receiving considerable attention in the context of investment management and also in the public debate. While many financial service providers claim to offer ecologically and/or socially responsible financial products...

The authors analyze the impact of individuals' degree of extraversion and neuroticism on their decision making in an experimental asset market. To establish this link between research on experimental asset markets and social psychology the authors use a unique approach that combines a...

Recent years have brought a gradual shift of responsibility for pension provisions, financial planning, health care and various insurances from governmental institutions and firms to individuals. To tackle this challenge, individuals need applied financial literacy and not merely theoretical...

The paper analyzes the question whether blue-chip stock indices provide a larger degree of internationalization than mid-cap stock indices. The specific focus lies on internationalization of blue-chip versus mid-cap stock indices in France, Germany, and the UK.Methodology/Approach: The dataset...

We analyze whether differences in market-wide levels of investor personality influence experimental asset market outcomes in terms of price bubbles and levels. We employ a questionnaire to determine investor personality and combine the survey data with data from experimental asset markets. We...

Social trading is characterized by the idea that individual investors, so-called signal providers, make their investment decisions available to a group of investors who follow these decisions. The performance of social trading, however, has hardly been in the focus of empirical studies so far....

We analyze the impact of individuals' degree of extraversion and neuroticism on their decision making in an experimental asset market. To establish this link between research on experimental asset markets and social psychology we use a unique approach that combines a questionnaire designed to...

Investors who only invest in their domestic market are typically referred to as being home-biased. We refer to firm-level internationalization and call into question whether investing in domestic stock indices actually leads to home bias. We use three measures of firm-level internationalization...