In this paper we develop an optimal dividend policy in the presence of limited rational inves-tors. Concretely, investors with mental accounts for dividends and stock prices as well as emotions like disappointment and elation embody the limited rationality. Furthermore, investors evaluate...

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird erörtert, wie beschränkte Rationalität auf verschiedene Phasen der Gründungsfinanzierung einwirken kann. Dabei wird konkret die Venture Capital-Finanzierung als wohl bedeutendste Form einer Gründungsfinanzierung der Untersuchung zugrunde gelegt. Für diese...

Since the equity premium as well as the risk-free rate puzzle question the concepts centralto financial and economic modeling, we apply behavioral decision theory to asset pricing in view ofsolving these puzzles. U.S. stock market data for the period 1960-2003 and German stock marketdata for the...

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird erörtert, wie beschränkte Rationalität auf verschiedene Phasen der Gründungsfinanzierung einwirken kann. Dabei wird konkret die Venture Capital-Finanzierung als wohl bedeutendste Form einer Gründungsfinanzierung der Untersuchung zugrunde gelegt. Für diese...

In this paper we develop an optimal dividend policy in the presence of limited rational inves-tors. Concretely, investors with mental accounts for dividends and stock prices as well as emotions like disappointment and elation embody the limited rationality. Furthermore, investors evaluate...

Since the equity premium as well as the risk-free rate puzzle question the concepts central to financial and economic modeling, we apply behavioral decision theory to asset pricing in view of solving these puzzles. U.S. stock market data for the period 1960-2003 and German stock market data for...

The requirement of positive marginal utility only makes it possible to derive a restricted twofundseparation theorem for portfolio selection problems replacing the original separation theorem ofCass and Stiglitz (1970). We use our findings for a re-examination of the bias-in-beta problem in...

We consider investors with mean-variance-skewness preferences who aim at selecting oneout of F different funds and combining it optimally with the riskless asset and direct stock holdings.Direct stock holdings are either exogenously or endogenously determined. In our theoretical section,we...

The most relevant practical impediment to an application of the Markowitz portfolio selectionapproach is the problem of estimating return moments, in particular return expectations. We analyzethe consequences of using return estimates implied by analysts’ dividend forecasts under the...

In the literature, implied rates of return are suggested as estimators for future expected oneperiodreturns because of their property not being prone to the discount rate effect. The discount rateeffect describes the problem that changes in expected future one-period returns lead to...