This study provides an overview of the model evolution and research trends in the field of financial and risk modelling by applying a bibliometric approach from 2008–2019 and an overall citation network analysis. We present a content analysis of contributing authors, countries, journals, main...

Do politically diverse teams perform worse when political disagreement increases? No – despite greater political disagreement during Covid-19, politically diverse mutual fund teams outperform in terms of both fund returns and fund flows. Return outperformance is driven by pre-existing...

This study analyzes the relationship between COVID-19 related fear and short-term IPO performance. Though the average market-adjusted initial return of IPOs in the year 2020 is higher than that of the last four decades, it decreases if fear of pandemic increases. The evidence is robust when we...

We present a comprehensive analysis of the performance and flows of U.S. actively-managed equity mutual funds during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020. We find that most active funds underperform passive benchmarks during the crisis, contradicting a popular hypothesis. Funds with high sustainability...

This paper compares the performance of safe haven assets during two stressful stock market regimes – the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and COVID-19 pandemic. Our analysis across the ten largest economies in the world shows that the traditional choice, gold, acts as a safe haven during the...

Extant literature consistently documents that investors tilt their domestic equity portfolios towards regionally close stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead also determines their international investment...

We analyze the effect of geographic proximity on individual investors’ portfolio choice. Using a unique data set which covers the common stockholdings of private households at regional banks in Germany, we document strong and consistent overinvestment in geographically close companies. Our...

The endowment model, presumed to be a paradigm of value-adding asset class diversification, is a thing of the past. Large educational endowment funds in the United States have heavily concentrated their investments—public and private—in ones that are moderately to highly correlated with the...

This paper shows that gold’s safe haven property crucially depends on gold’s exchange rate with the respective currency for local investors. A sample of 68 international equity market indices demonstrates that currencies significantly affect the strength of the safe haven effect, enhancing...

During the global financial crisis, stressed market conditions led to skyrocketing corporate bond spreads that could not be explained by conventional modeling approaches. This paper builds on this observation and sheds light on time-variations in the relationship between systematic risk factors...