This paper sets up an experimental asset market in the laboratory to investigate the effects of ambiguity on price formation and trading behavior in financial markets. The obtained trading data is used to analyze the effect of ambiguity on various market outcomes (the price level, volatility,...

This paper considers the realized returns of individual investors in warrants and leverage certificates. First, we derive a general formula that analytically decomposes the return into several economically meaningful components that are related to investor's trading behavior and the issuers'...

In current scenario, behavioral finance plays an important role in investment decision making. Investment decision has become a complex decision with the availability of investment choices, accessibility of information and increased size of the market. There are various options or choices...

Recent research has separately uncovered that stock ownership strongly correlates with both expectations and realizations of stock market returns, as well as with measures of financial literacy, ability or trust. This paper reconciles all, and reports new findings from a unique survey containing...

Am Kapitalmarkt agierende Investoren zeigen Verhaltensweisen, die dem klassischen Verständnis von einem rational handelnden Individuum (Homo oeconomicus) widersprechen. Hierzu zählt auch das Phänomen des Dispositionseffektes. Der Dispositionseffekt führt zu einer schlechteren Wertentwicklung...