How to win the World Cup
The football world cup is in its final stage and everyone is wondering: Who is going to win the trophy?
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Do Fund Managers Improve with Age?
Experience can be helpful – at work, but also in everyday life. In this post, we showed that prior work
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Do Investors Profit from Prior Work Experience? Paper Accepted at Review of Financial Studies Provides an Answer
How does prior work experience affect investment choices? This question is crucial for our understanding of financial markets – especially
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The Weak Sex? Female Fund Managers and Sentiment Shocks Part II
In yesterday’s post, we compared male and female fund managers. Our main take-aways: Funds of female managers are considerably smaller,
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The Weak Sex? Female Fund Managers and Sentiment Shocks Part I
Tomorrow is International Women’s Day. Hence, in today’s and tomorrow’s post, we take a look at women in the workplace.
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It’s in the Structure – Predicting Bitcoins via Social Media
Yes, social media can predict returns in financial markets – as we discussed in a previous post. The general mechanism:
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Women in Economics – Author Bias in Top Conferences
The University of Hohenheim celebrates its 200th anniversary in 2018 with a wide range of activities – check out the
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Are You on the Guest List? Conferences as Private Parties
Are conferences private parties, and is it worth the effort to break in? In this post, we discussed the relation
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Where Should I Present My Paper? Conference Choice and Publication Success
Dissemination is a major point in resesarch. You examine a specific research question from a (you hope!) unique perspective, you
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Let The Text Speak for Itself – Word Tone and Stock Returns
Most research in Finance considers quantitative data. But there are fascinating data bases that contain financially relevant text. For example,
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