Christoph Merkle

Aarhus University

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Emotion and Finance - An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Impact of Emotions on Financial Decision Making

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 24 Feb 2008
Christoph Merkle
Aarhus University
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emotion, rationality, decision making, neuroeconomics, neurofinance, behavioral finance

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Financial Overconfidence Over Time: Foresight, Hindsight, and Insight of Investors

Journal of Banking and Finance, 2017, Vol. 84, pp. 68-87. Preprint Version, AFA 2013 San Diego Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 08 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2017
Christoph Merkle
Aarhus University
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Overconfidence, Trading, Diversification, Risk Taking, Expectations, Hindsight

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True Overconfidence: The Inability of Rational Information Processing to Account for Apparent Overconfidence

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 116, No. 2, pp. 262-271
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2012
Christoph Merkle and Martin Weber
Aarhus University and University of Mannheim - Department of Banking and Finance
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Overconfidence, Better-than-average effect, Overplacement, Bayesian updating, Belief distribution

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Inconsistent Retirement Timing

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 11 May 2016 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2017
Christoph Merkle, Philipp Schreiber and Martin Weber
Aarhus University, University of Mannheim - Finance Department and University of Mannheim - Department of Banking and Finance
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Retirement Timing, Time Preferences, Hyperbolic Discounting, Social Security

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Second-order Beliefs and the Individual Investor

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, Vol. 107(B), pp. 652-666.
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2014
Daniel P. Egan, Christoph Merkle and Martin Weber
Betterment.com, Aarhus University and University of Mannheim - Department of Banking and Finance
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Expectations, Naive Realism, Stock-Market, Second-Order-Beliefs, False Consensus E ffect, Bias Blind Spot, Beauty Contest

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Do Investors Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is? Stock Market Expectations and Investing Behavior

Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 46, pp. 372-386.
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2014
Christoph Merkle and Martin Weber
Aarhus University and University of Mannheim - Department of Banking and Finance
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Expectations, Beliefs, Risk, Return, Trading Behavior, Portfolio Choice

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Investor Happiness

Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 49, pp. 167-186, 2015
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 26 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2015
Christoph Merkle, Daniel P. Egan and Greg B Davies
Aarhus University, Betterment.com and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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Happiness, Expectation, Experience, Individual Investors

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Low Risk and High Return – Affective Attitudes and Stock Market Expectations

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Low Risk and High Return – Affective Attitudes and Stock Market Expectations

This is the accepted version of the following article: Kempf, A., Merkle, C. and Niessen-Ruenzi, A. (2014), Low Risk and High Return – Affective Attitudes and Stock Market Expectations. European Financial Management, 20: 995–1030, which has been published in final form at doi: 10.1111/eufm.12001.
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 11 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2016
Alexander Kempf, Christoph Merkle and Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR), Aarhus University and University of Mannheim - Department of Finance
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Emotions, Risk and Return Expectations, Behavioral Finance, Affect Heuristic

Low Risk and High Return – Affective Attitudes and Stock Market Expectations

European Financial Management, Vol. 20, Issue 5, pp. 995-1030, 2014
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 31 Oct 2014
Alexander Kempf, Christoph Merkle and Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi
University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR), Aarhus University and University of Mannheim - Department of Finance
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affective attitudes, risk and return expectations, behavioural finance, affect heuristic

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Fooled by Randomness: Investor Perception of Fund Manager Skill

Review of Finance, 2017, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 605-635. This is the accepted version of doi: 10.1093/rof/rfw011
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2018
Justus Heuer, Christoph Merkle and Martin Weber
University of Mannheim - Finance Area, Aarhus University and University of Mannheim - Department of Banking and Finance
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Mutual Fund Performance, Skill, Luck, Return Chasing, False Discovery

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Algorithm Aversion in Financial Investing

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Nov 2019
Maximilian Germann and Christoph Merkle
University of Mannheim - Department of Banking and Finance and Aarhus University
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Algorithm Aversion, Financial Technology, Asset Management, Delegated Investment

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Financial Loss Aversion Illusion

Review of Finance, Vol. 24(2), pp. 381-413, Doi: 10.1093/rof/rfz002
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 05 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2020
Christoph Merkle
Aarhus University
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Loss Aversion, Individual Investors, Return Expectations, Experience, Affective Forecasting Error

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Closing a Mental Account: The Realization Effect for Gains and Losses

Experimental Economics, forthcoming. Preprint version
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 17 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 18 May 2020
Christoph Merkle, Jan Müller-Dethard and Martin Weber
Aarhus University, University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim - Department of Banking and Finance
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Realization Effect, Mental Accounting, House Money Effect, Risk Taking

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Framing and Retirement Age: The Gap between Willingness-to-Accept and Willingness-to-Pay

Economic Policy, Vol. 32(92), pp. 757-809, 2017, DOI: org/10.1093/epolic/eix014, 64th Panel Meeting of Economic Policy, October 2016
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 09 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2017
Christoph Merkle, Philipp Schreiber and Martin Weber
Aarhus University, University of Mannheim - Finance Department and University of Mannheim - Department of Banking and Finance
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Retirement Decision, Willigness-to-pay, Willigness-to-accept, Social Security

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The Curious Case of Negative Volatility

Journal of Financial Markets, Vol. 40, pp. 92-108, 2018, DOI: 10.1016/j.finmar.2017.11.001
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2018
Christoph Merkle
Aarhus University
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Risk Perception, Volatility, Overconfidence, Miscalibration, Diversification

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The Effect of CEO Extraversion on Analyst Forecasts: Stereotypes and Similarity Bias

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The Effect of CEO Extraversion on Analyst Forecasts: Stereotypes and Similarity Bias

The Financial Review, 2019, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 133-164, doi.org/10.1111/fire.12173
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 07 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2019
Jochen Becker, Josip Medjedovic and Christoph Merkle
German Graduate School of Management and Law, German Graduate School of Management and Law and Aarhus University
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Financial analyst, CEO personality, nonfinancial information, stereotyping heuristic, similarity bias, extraversion

The Effect of CEO Extraversion on Analyst Forecasts: Stereotypes and Similarity Bias

Financial Review, Vol. 54, Issue 1, pp. 133-164, 2019
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Jan 2019
Jochen Becker, Josip Medjedovic and Christoph Merkle
German Graduate School of Management and Law, German Graduate School of Management and Law and Aarhus University
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financial analyst, CEO personality, nonfinancial information, stereotyping heuristic, similarity bias, extraversion

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Value and Momentum from Investors' Perspective: Evidence from Professionals' Risk-Ratings

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 22 May 2020
Christoph Merkle and Christoph J. Sextroh
Aarhus University and Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management
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Value, Momentum, Risk factor, Anomaly, Financial Analysts

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Earn More Tomorrow: Overconfident Income Expectations and Consumer Indebtedness

SFB Rationality & Competition, Discussion Paper No. 152
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 24 Apr 2019
Antonia Grohmann, Lukas Menkhoff, Christoph Merkle and Renke Schmacker
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Aarhus University and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
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Debt, Consumption, Borrowing, Overconfidence, Income Expectations

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Robo-Advice and the Future of Delegated Investment

Journal of Financial Transformation, Vol. 51, pp. 20-27, April 2020
Number of pages: 13
Christoph Merkle
Aarhus University
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Robo-advice, Delegated Investment, Financial Advice, Asset management,