Our study contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between financial literacy and households' investments in risky assets. We estimate a structural equation model with data from the Panel on Household Finances of the German central bank. Our results show that although...

We survey 231 undergraduate students to analyze how retail investors' characteristics influence their decision to use a robo-advisor. Characteristics such as the willingness to take risk, extraversion, and optimism are significant in univariate tests but the willingness to take risk and the...

Robo-advisers enable investors to establish an automated rebalancing strategy for a portfolio usually consisting of stocks and bonds. Since households’ portfolios additionally include further frequently tradable assets like real estate funds, articles of great value and cash(-equivalents), we...

This study analyzes investors' perception of placebic information and its impact on stock price estimates. We initiate a questionnaire-based stock price forecast competition among 196 undergraduate students in business administration. We show that placebic information increases the perceived...

Zusammenfassung Die häufig verwendeten Wissensabfragen zur Messung der Financial Literacy sind nur ein schwacher Prädiktor für tatsächliches Finanzverhalten. Dieser Beitrag verwendet daher Fallbeispiele als eine realitätsnahe Alternative zu Wissensabfragen, um auf die praktische Financial...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to derive the determinants of young adults’ subjective and objective risk attitude in theoretical and real-world financial decisions. Furthermore, a comparison of the factors that influence young adults’ and older adults’ risk attitude is provided....

Purpose: Retail investors use information provided by mutual fund rating agencies to make investment decisions. This paper aims to examine whether the ratings provide useful information to retail investors by analyzing the rating migration and closure risk of mutual funds that received...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze whether differences in market-wide levels of investor personality influence experimental asset market outcomes in terms of limit orders, price levels and price bubbles. Design/methodology/approach: Investor personality is determined by a...

Momentum trading strategies have been proved to be profitable in different asset classes and on various national capital markets in the past. However, there are some indications for eroding momentum profits. Based on the theory of gradual information distribution on capital markets and the...