Auflistung LIF-SAFE Working Papers nach JEL-Klassifizierung "G11"
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Ambiguity and Investor Behavior
(2020-11-24)We relate time-varying aggregate ambiguity (V-VSTOXX) to individual investor trading. We use the trading records of more than 100,000 individual investors from a large German online brokerage from March 2010 to December ... -
Asset Prices in General Equilibrium with Recursive Utility and Illiquidity Induced by Transactions Costs
(2015-02-01)In this paper, we study the effect of proportional transaction costs on consumption-portfolio decisions and asset prices in a dynamic general equilibrium economy with a financial market that has a single-period bond and ... -
Client Involvement in Expert Advice: Antibiotics in Finance?
(2018-07-23)We use minutes from 17,000 financial advisory sessions and corresponding client portfolio data to study how client involvement affects advisor recommendations and portfolio outcomes. We find that advisors confronted with ... -
Consuming Dividends
(2020-05-01)This paper studies why investors buy dividend-paying assets and how they time their consumption accordingly. We combine administrative bank data linking customers’ consumption transactions and income to detailed portfolio ... -
Consumption-Investment Problems with Stochastic Mortality Risk
(2014-03-03)I numerically solve realistically calibrated life cycle consumption-investment problems in continuous time featuring stochastic mortality risk driven by jumps, unspanned labor income as well as short-sale and liquidity ... -
Consumption-Portfolio Choice with Preferences for Cash
(2018-07-12)This paper studies a consumption-portfolio problem where money enters the agent's utility function. We solve the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and provide closed-form solutions for the optimal consumption ... -
Critical Illness Insurance in Life Cycle Portfolio Problems
(2014-03-03)I analyze a critical illness insurance in a consumption-investment model over the life cycle. I solve a model with stochastic mortality risk and health shock risk numerically. These shocks are interpreted as critical illness ... -
Does feedback on personal investment success help?
(2016-12-06)In a field study with more than 1.500 customers of an online-broker we test what happens when investors receive repeated feedback on their investment success in a monthly securities account report. The reports show investors’ ... -
Does Mood Affect Trading Behavior?
(2012-11-09)We test whether investor mood affects trading with data on all stock market transactions in Finland, utilizing variation in daylight and local weather. We find some evidence that environmental mood variables (local weather, ... -
Does Product Familiarity Matter for Participation?
(2015-05-19)"Household access to financial products is often conditioned on previous use. However, banning access when learning is possible may be discriminatory or counterproductive. The ""experiment"" of German reunification ... -
Does sophistication affect long-term return expectations? Evidence from financial advisers' exam scores
(2013-01-22)We use unique data fromfinancial advisers’ professional exam scores and combine it with other variables to create an index of financial sophistication. Using this index to explain long-term stock return expectations, we ... -
Financial education, literacy and investment attitudes
(2015-05-01)Based on a sample of university students, we provide field and laboratory evidence that a small scale training intervention has both a statistically and economically significant effect on subjective and objective assessments ... -
Globally Dangerous Diseases: Bad News for Main Street, Good News for Wall Street?
(2016-12-12)This paper examines whether investor mood, driven by World Health Organization (WHO) alerts and media news on globally dangerous diseases, is priced in pharmaceutical companies' stocks in the United States. We concentrate ... -
Household Debt and Social Interactions
(2013-12-06)Can concern with relative standing, which has been shown to influence consumption and labor supply, also increase borrowing and the likelihood of financial distress? We find that perceived peer income contributes to debt ... -
How Persistent Low Expected Returns Alter Optimal Life Cycle Saving, Investment, and Retirement Behavior
(2017-06-23)This Chapter explores how an environment of persistent low returns influences saving, investing, and retirement behaviors, as compared to what in the past had been thought of as more “normal” financial conditions. Our ... -
Implications of Money-Back Guarantees for Individual Retirement Accounts: Protection Then and Now
(2019-10-21)In the wake of the financial crisis and continued volatility in international capital markets, there is growing interest in mechanisms that can protect people against retirement account volatility. This paper explores the ... -
Incompatible European Partners? Cultural Predispositions and Household Financial Behavior
(2015-01-27)The Eurozone fiscal crisis has created pressure for institutional harmonization, but skeptics argue that cultural predispositions can prevent convergence in behavior. Our paper derives a robust cultural classification of ... -
Inside the ESG Ratings: (Dis)agreement and Performance
(2020-07-31)We analyze the ESG rating criteria used by prominent agencies and show that there is a lack of a commonality in the definition of ESG (i) characteristics, (ii) attributes and (iii) standards in defining E, S and G components. ... -
International Capital Markets with Time-Varying Preferences
(2017-08-02)We propose a 2-country asset-pricing model where agents' preferences change endogenously as a function of the popularity of internationally traded goods. We determine the effect of the time-variation of preferences on ... -
Life Insurance Demand under Health Shock Risk
(2015-06-03)This paper studies the life cycle consumption-investment-insurance problem of a family. The wage earner faces the risk of a health shock that significantly increases his probability of dying. The family can buy long-term ...