Seit die EZB den Einlagezins in den negativen Bereich gesenkt hat, gehen auch vermehrt Geschaftsbanken dazu uber, diesen negativen Zins an ihre Kunden weiterzugeben. In diesem Beitrag wird zunachst geklart, unter welchen Umstanden Sichteinlagen und Uberschussliquiditat entstehen und welche Rolle...

Seit die EZB den Einlagezins in den negativen Bereich gesenkt hat, gehen auch vermehrt Geschaftsbanken dazu uber, diesen negativen Zins an ihre Kunden weiterzugeben. In diesem Beitrag wird zunachst geklart, unter welchen Umstanden Sichteinlagen und Uberschussliquiditat entstehen und welche Rolle...

Part I: An Overview of Islamic InvestmentChapter 1: Islamic Investment ParadigmChapter 2: Islamic Fund ManagementPart II: Principles of Islamic InvestmentChapter 3: Shari'ah Frameworks of InvestmentChapter 4: Islamic Investment PoliciesPart III: Islamic Investment Products and PracticesChapter...

Behavioral economics characterizes decision-makers using psychologically-informed models. Cognitive science produces psychologically-informed models. Why don't these disciplines talk more? Here, the author presents several arguments for why cognitive science should inform behavioral economics -...

Für Investitionen am Kapitalmarkt spielt die Portfoliotheorie (Markowitz, 1952) eine bedeutende Rolle und bildet nach wie vor eine wichtige Entscheidungsgrundlage für die Strukturierung von Anlageportfolios. Für risikoaverse Anleger ist die Diversifikation der Portfoliobestandteile eine...

This chapter discusses the basis for and concepts of implementing performance based measures in financial regulation. Drawing on empirical methods and insights generated in the field of behavioural economics theoretical considerations and alternative measurements of services and disclosure...

Meeting the predictors -- The problem with forecasting in economic theory -- Inside Swiss banking -- Among financial analysts -- Intrinsic value, market value, and the search for information -- The construction of an investment narrative -- The politics of circulating narratives -- Analysts as...

With a novel experimental design we investigate whether risk perception, return expectations, and investment propensity are influenced by the scale of the vertical axis in charts. We explore this for two presentation formats, namely return charts and price charts, where we depict low- and...

One explanation for overpricing on asset markets is a lack of traders' self-control. Self-control is the individual capacity to override or inhibit undesired impulses that may drive prices. We implement the first experiment to address the causal relationship between self-control abilities and...

My overall goal of the PhD is to contribute to a better understanding of how fundamental risk factors affect the cross-section of returns within as well as the correlation across asset classes. The thesis contains two papers that are strictly speaking asset pricing papers, while a third one...