The first chapter analyzes both the disposition effect and trading performance at the individual level to determine whether and how investors learn from their trading experience. The study finds that performance improves and the disposition effect declines as investors become more experienced,...

Ziel der Diplomarbeit ist es, aufzuzeigen, welche Einflussfaktoren auf den Kapitalanleger aus ökonomischer, soziologischer und psychologischer einwirken. Unter diesen Gesichtspunkten wird der Wandel des Anlageverhaltens eines Individuums in seinem fortschreitenden Lebenszyklus betrachtet.Durch...

Das Wachstum multinationaler Unternehmen (MNU) wird zunehmend durch Investitionen von Dienstleistungsunternehmen vorangetrieben. Die Produktion von Dienstleistungen unterscheidet sich allerdings in mehreren Aspekten von der Herstellung klassischer Industriegüter. Eine zentrale Eigenschaft ist...

Este trabajo analiza el comportamiento conjunto de los flujos de capital internacionales, en la frecuencia del ciclo de negocios y durante crisis financieras, por parte de residentes y no residentes. El trabajo muestra que, en relación a los flujos de capital netos, los flujos de capital brutos...

Risk perceptions of individual investors are studied by asking experimental questions to 2,226 members of a consumer panel. Their responses are analyzed in order to find which risk measures they implicitly use. We find that most investors implicitly use more than one risk measure. For those...

Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2007

Using detailed data of individual investors, this dissertation investigates whether and how individuals use financial disclosure and analysts’ signals. Chapter 1 shows that, on average, individuals invest more in firms with readable, concise, and transparent financial disclosures. The results...

This work covers a substantial mosaic of related concepts in utility theory as applied to financial decision-making. It reviews some of the classical notions of Benthamite utility and the normative utility paradigm offered by the von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility theory; exploring its...

This dissertation consists of three essays on the role of social values in financial markets. Chapter 1 uses geographic variation in religious concentration to identify the effect of people's gambling behavior in financial market settings. We argue that religious background predicts people's...

This dissertation consists of two essays investigating the trading by institutions and its impact on the stock market. In the first essay, I investigate why changes in institutional breadth predict return. I first show that changes in breadth are positively associated with abnormal returns over...