This paper incorporates expectations-based reference-dependent preferences into the canonical Lucas-tree asset-pricing economy. Expectations-based loss aversion increases the equity premium and decreases the consumption-wealth ratio, because uncertain fluctuations in consumption are perceived to...

I incorporate expectations-based reference-dependent preferences into a dynamic stochastic model to explain three major life-cycle consumption facts; the intuitions behind these three implications constitute novel connections between recent advances in behavioral economics and prominent ideas in...

The ability of forecast the S&P500 is inconsistent with the notion of efficient markets. this established wisdom has come under attack in the past few years, from such concepts as noise trading. A Potential problem with noise trading, however, is that there are no tools to inform inormation of...

Information search is costly for private households, especially in relation to their wealth. This paper investigates how retail customers react to free portfolio reporting—and thus reduced search costs—in a unique experimental setting. A large German direct bank sends portfolio reports to...

Working with one of the largest brokerages in Germany, we record what happens when unbiased investment advice is offered to a random set of approximately 8,000 active retail customers out of the brokerage's several hundred thousand retail customers. We find that investors who most need the...

Das Verfassungsrecht räumt dem Gesetzgeber für die einzelgesetzliche Umsetzung der Regelungen des Art. 107 Abs. 1 S. 4 GG und Art. 107 Abs. 2 S. 1 GG weite Definitions- und Gestaltungsspielräume ein, die erheblich weiter sind, als dies in der rechts- und finanzwissenschaftlichen Literatur...

Der durch die Solidarpaktgesetzgebung des Jahres 1993 neugeordnete Länderfinanzausgleich ist seit den Verfassungsklagen von Bayern und Baden- Württemberg Gegenstand öffentlicher Auseinandersetzungen geworden. Dabei stehen mögliche negative Anreizwirkungen des Finanzausgleichs im Mittelpunkt....

Why do people trade? Because they are told to! Using a unique dataset from a large German bank, we find that retail investors who report that they rely heavily on their advisors’ recommendations have a substantially higher trading volume and purchase a higher fraction of investment products...

In some insurance markets, the uninsured can generate a negative externality on the insured, leading insurance companies to pass on costs as higher premia. Using a novel panel data set and a staggered policy change that exogenously varied the rate of uninsured drivers at the county level in...