Using representative US investor data, we investigate whether automated financial advisors, also referred to as robo-advisors, reduce investors' demand for human financial advice offered by financial service providers. Our results provide a strong negative relationship between using...

In this study, we investigate how two key dimensions of trust formation, i.e. interpersonal trust in the advisor (narrow-scope trust) and broader trust in the business context in which the advisor operates (broad-scope trust), impact households' overall trust in financial advice. To capture the...

We examine whether the informativeness of sell-side analyst reports depends on the strength of the regulatory environment of a country and the regulatory background of the institutional investors of a company. Our analyses are based on more than 600,000 analyst reports from 2005 through 2010...