This paper investigates the purchases and redemptions of a large cross-sectional sample of German equity funds. We find that investors punish bad performance by selling their shares, but also have a tendency to sell winners. Investors in large fund families show higher sales and redemption...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird in vier Forschungsbeiträgen der Einfluss der Besteuerung auf Investitionsentscheidungen in Indexprodukte (Indexzertifikate, börsengehandelte Indexfonds) untersucht sowie eine Evaluierung der Auswirkungen des Gesetzes zur Reform der Investmentbesteuerung auf...

The existing literature finds conflicting results on the magnitude of price linkages between equity mutual funds and the stock market. The study contends that in an optimal lagged model, the expectations of future prices using knowledge of past price behaviour in a particular equity mutual fund...