Publications
Our researchers make regular contributions to leading academic journals and also serve on the editorial boards of prominent publications. The House of Finance thus enriches national and international research dialog on current issues in finance, economics and law. Our institutes maintain the following working paper series:
- CFS Working Paper Series (finance-related topics)
- EFL Articles (e-finance)
- ICIR Working Paper Series (insurance regulation)
- IMFS Working Paper Series (monetary and financial stability)
- ILF Working Paper Series (law and finance)
- LawFin Working Paper Series (financial regulation)
- SAFE Working Paper Series (finance-related topics)
A selection of our working papers can be found below.
The near-rationality hypothesis holds that even very small costs of optimization may lead…
The near-rationality hypothesis holds that even very small costs of optimization may lead people to act suboptimally. We embed this idea in a standard model of consumption-savings decisions:…
The authors revisit the limited stock market participation puzzle leveraging a qualitative…
The authors revisit the limited stock market participation puzzle leveraging a qualitative research approach that is commonly used in many social sciences, but much less so in finance or…
The authors conduct a web-based experiment in which they elicit the recommendations of…
The authors conduct a web-based experiment in which they elicit the recommendations of professional and lay advisors on the risky portfolio share of randomly assigned vignettes of investors.…
We provide empirical evidence that the pricing of green bonds tends to be highly…
We provide empirical evidence that the pricing of green bonds tends to be highly sophisticated and based on a two-tiered approach. When buying a green bond, investors do not look only at the…
Expectations are central for housing decisions and heterogeneity in expectations is a…
Expectations are central for housing decisions and heterogeneity in expectations is a robust feature of survey data. We study the implications of heterogeneity in house price growth…
The authors investigate the implications of monetary policy rules during the surge and…
The authors investigate the implications of monetary policy rules during the surge and subsequent decline of inflation in the euro area and compares them to the interest rate decisions of…
We present novel evidence that retail investors attempt offsetting their carbon footprints…
We present novel evidence that retail investors attempt offsetting their carbon footprints by investing sustainably. Using highly granular transaction data from bank clients, we find that…
How does the design of debt repayment schedules affect household borrowing? To answer this…
How does the design of debt repayment schedules affect household borrowing? To answer this question, we exploit a Swedish policy reform that eliminated interest-only mortgages for…
We study how investors respond to inflation combining a customized survey experiment with…
We study how investors respond to inflation combining a customized survey experiment with trading data at a time of historically high inflation. Investors' beliefs about the stock…
We educate investors with significant dividend holdings about the benefits of dividend…
We educate investors with significant dividend holdings about the benefits of dividend reinvestment and the costs of misperceiving dividends as additional, free income. The intervention…
The lack of a European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS) – often referred to as the ‘third…
The lack of a European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS) – often referred to as the ‘third pillar’ of Banking Union – has been criticized since the inception of the EU Banking Union. The…
Central bank intervention in the form of quantitative easing (QE) during times of low…
Central bank intervention in the form of quantitative easing (QE) during times of low interest rates is a controversial topic. The author introduces a novel approach to study the…
