Beim vierten Verbraucherforschungsforum an der Zeppelin Universität in Friedrichshafen entwickelten Wissenschaftler aus verschiedenen Disziplinen gemeinsam eine Agenda für die Verbraucherforschung in der digitalen Welt. Im Zeitgespräch dokumentieren wir die Impulsreferate zu wesentlichen...

Social trading—also referred to as copy trading—is an interactive platform-based innovation facilitating visibility and traceability of signal provider trading activities. Based on published portfolio transaction and return track records, platform users can copy one or several signal...

In this article, we assess whether German private investors gamble in the stock market. Other studies that have analyzed private investors' preferences with regard to lottery-like characteristics have used retail or discount brokerage data. They have shown that stock trading has common...

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...

Der Beitrag analysiert sowohl Schwachstellen als auch darauf aufbauend Handlungsempfehlungen und Lösungsvorschläge im Bereich der finanziellen Bildung von privaten Haushalten. Die Analyse der Schwachstellen umfasst eine kritische Sicht auf die Methodik zur Einschätzung finanzieller Bildung,...

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...

The analysis of the relationship between board diversity and corporate performance is a well-documented area of research. Our analysis of the stock market in Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2018 contributes to the literature by considering different corporate constitutions...

The second part of the article deals with the second group of determinants of private investor behavior, the person of the investor himself. The considerations differentiate between determinants of the personal disposition like emotional, motivational or cognitive determinants (e. g. the degree...

Der erste Teil dieses Beitrags beschreibt die theoretischen und konzeptionellen Erwägungen einer gründlichen Untersuchung von Verhaltensweisen privater Investoren. Auf der Grundlage einer breit angelegten Literaturübersicht erörtern die Autoren die wichtigsten Bestimmungsgründe für...