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For their paper „Surprise in Short Interest“ Pavel Lesnevski and Esad Smajlbegovic received the best paper in behavioral finance award at the European Joint Conference 2017 of Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance (Europe) and Academy of Behavioral Finance and Economics held in Stuttgart on 16–17 March ...

The introductory slides for the course FIN 580 – Derivatives I are available at the course page.

The paper „Tail Risk in Hedge Funds: A Unique View from Portfolio Holdings“ by Vikas Agarwal, Stefan Ruenzi, and Florian Weigert has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Financial Economics.

The paper „The Impact of Financial Advice on Trade Performance and Behavioral Biases“ by Stefan Ruenzi (joint with Daniel Hoechle, Nic Schaub, and Markus Schmid) has been conditionally accepted of publication by the Review of Finance.

We are glad to announce that one of our former students has been awarded by the „Stiftung Kommunikations- und Medien­wissenschaften“. Carina Leonhardt won this prize for her master thesis „How Does the Media Report on Macroeconomic Announcements? An Empirical Analysis“.

The papers „Financial Advice and Bank Profits“ (by Hoechle, Ruenzi, Schaub, and Schmid) and „Ninety Years of Media Coverage and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns“ (by Hillert and Ungeheuer) have been accepted for presentation at the European Finance Association Annual Meeting 2016 in Oslo. You can ...

City Wire covers the research paper „Sex Matters – Gender Bias in the Mutual Fund Industry“ (joint with Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi) in an article from June 1, 2016. Read the full article here. 

We are glad to announce that two of our former students have been awarded prizes by the DZ BANK Group. Michael Kandziora received the second prize for the best master thesis “Improving credit card decisions by fostering self-control” which he had written in the spring semester of 2015. Franz Hinzen ...

The Swiss Handels­zeitung covers the research paper „Sex Matters – Gender Bias in the Mutual Fund Industry“ (joint with Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi) in its April 10 issue. Read the full article here.

On February 29, the Wall Street Journal published an article referring to the paper „CEO Owner­ship, Stock Market Performance, and Managerial Discretion“. The press article can be found here and the study by Ruenzi that the article is referring to can be found here.