Finanzmärkte und makroökonomische Aktivität
Der Finanzsektor: Ein komplexes System mit einer Vielzahl interagierender Akteure. Ein gut funktionierender Finanzsektor ist eine notwendige Voraussetzung für das Wachstum einer Volkswirtschaft. Die Finanzkrise der Jahre 2008/09 hat nachdrücklich gezeigt, wie ein Ausfall einzelner Komponenten über Dominoeffekte die Funktionsfähigkeit des gesamten Finanzsektors beeinträchtigen und letztendlich immense Schäden für die Weltwirtschaft verursachen kann. Dies unterstreicht die Bedeutung der Entwicklung von Modellen und Diagnoseinstrumenten zur Analyse und Identifikation der Ursachen von Instabilitäten und gesamtwirtschaftlichem Risikopotenzial im Finanzbereich.
Das Ziel der Forschungsgruppe ist es, einen Beitrag zu einem tieferen Verständnis der Struktur von Risiken im Finanzsektor zu leisten. Die untersuchten Themenbereiche beinhalten die Analyse der Interaktionen zwischen Marktteilnehmern, die Entstehung von spekulativen Blasen, den Einfluss von kognitiven Verzerrungen auf das Marktverhalten, und die ökonometrische Analyse der Preisdynamik und des Schwankungsgrades von Finanzaktiva.
Profil
Die Mitglieder des Forschungsbereichs verbinden Expertise im Bereich der verhaltensorientierten Finanzökonomik, der empirischen Finanzmarktforschung und der experimentellen Wirtschaftsforschung.
Durch die Verbindung von Erklärungsansätzen und Methoden dieser unterschiedlichen Forschungsrichtungen resultiert das spezifisch an der Schnittstelle dieser Bereiche angesiedelte Forschungsprogramm der Arbeitsgruppe.
Aus methodischer Sicht ist die Arbeit des Forschungsbereichs gekennzeichnet durch die Sicht des Finanzsektors als eines dynamischen Systems mit einer Vielzahl involvierter und in Wechselwirkung stehender Akteure. Um der komplexen Dynamik des Finanzsektors gerecht zu werden, verwendet die Arbeitsgruppe neben eher traditionellen ökonomischen und ökonometrischen Analyseinstrumenten auch neue Methoden der agenten-basierten Modellierung und der Netzwerkforschung.
Wissenstransfer
Die Arbeiten des Forschungsbereichs werden regelmäßig auf internationalen Konferenzen präsentiert. Die leitenden Wissenschaftler sind präsent in den Herausgebergremien namhafter Fachzeitschriften und regelmäßig Mitorganisatoren von internationalen Konferenzen und Workshops (u.a. zu den Lehren der gegenwärtigen Finanzkrise).
Einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit werden die Forschungsergebnisse der Arbeitsgruppe durch die Teilnahme an öffentlichen Podiumsdiskussionen, Interviews und Beiträge in Zeitungen zugänglich gemacht.
Projects
Recent Publications
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Research Publications
- Alfarano, S., Lux, T. (2007). A Minimal Noise Trader Model with Realistic Time Series Properties. G. Teysierre and A. Kirman (eds), Long Memory in Economics. Springer, Berlin.
- Alfarano, S., Milakovic, M., Raddant, M. (Forthcoming). A Note on institutional hierarchy and volatility in financial markets. The European Journal of Finance, Routledge
- Alfarano, S., Lux, T., Wagner, F. (2008). Time Variation of Higher Moments in Financial Markets with Heterogeneous Agents: An Analytical Approach. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 32 (1), 101-136.
- Aßmann, C., Boysen-Hogrefe, J. (2011). A Bayesian Approach to Model-Based Clustering for Binary Panel Probit Models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 55(1), 261-279.
- Aßmann, C., Boysen-Hogrefe, J., , (2012). Determinants of Government Bond Spreads in the Euro: In Good Times as in Bad. Empirica-Journal of European Economics, 39(3), 341-356.
- Birnbaum, M., Schmidt, U. (2008). An Experimental Investigation of Violations of Transitivity in Choice under Uncertainty. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 37(1), 77-91.
- Birnbaum, M., Schmidt, U. (2010). Testing Transitivity in Choice under Risk. Theory and Decision, 69 (4), 599-614.
- Bleichrodt, H., Schmidt, U., Zank, H. (2009). Additive Utility in Prospect Theory. Management Science, 55(5), 863-873.
- Cincotti, S., Gardini, L., Lux, T. (2008). Special issue on "New Advances in Financial Economics: Heterogeneity and Simulation". Computational Economics, 32 (1-2)
- Colander, D., Föllmer, H., Haas, A., Goldberg, M., Juselius, K., Kirman, A., Lux, T., Sloth, B. (2009). The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics . Critical Review, 21 (2-3), 249-267.
- de Graeve, F., Kick, T., Koetter, M. (2008). Monetary policy and financial (in)stability: An integrated micro–macro approach. JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL STABILITY, 4, Elsevier, 165-304.
- Farmer, J., Lux, T. (2008). Introduction to special issue on "Applications of Statistical Physics in Economics and Finance". Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 32 (1), 1-6.
- Gallegati, M., Keen, S., Lux, T., Ormerod, P. (2006). Worrying Trends in Econophysics. Physica A, 370, 1-6.
- Ghonghadze, J., Lux, T. (Forthcoming). Modeling the Dynamics of EU Economic Sentiment Indicators: An Interaction-Based Approach . Applied Economics
- Herwartz, H., Morales-Arias, L. (2009). In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Properties of International Stock Return Dynamics Conditional on Equilibrium Pricing Factors. European Journal of Finance, 15 (1), 1-28.
- Hey, J., Morone, A., Schmidt, U. (2009). Noise and Bias in Eliciting Preferences. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 39 (3), 213-235.
- Hommes, C., Lux, T. (Forthcoming). Individual Expectations and Aggregate Behavior in Learning to Forecast Experiments . Macroeconomic Dynamics
- Irle, A., Kauschke, J., Lux, T., Milaković, M. (2011). Switching Rates and the Asymptotic Behavior of Herding Models. Advances in Complex Systems, 14 (3), 359-376.
- Kenett, D., Raddant, M., Zatlavi, L., Lux, T., Ben-Jacob, E. (2012). Correlations and Dependence in the Global Financial Village . Conference Series, International Journal of Modern Physics, 16, World Scientific Publishing Company
- Kenett, D., Raddant, M., Lux, T., Ben-Jacob, E. (2012). Evolvement of Uniformity and Volatility in the Stressed Global Financial Village. PLoS ONE , 7(2), 8 pp.
- Kick, T., Koetter, M. (2007). Slippery Slopes of Stress: Ordered Failure Events in German Banking. Journal of Financial Stability, 3(2), 132-148.
- Liu, R., Di Matteo, T., Lux, T. (2008). Multifractality and Long-Range Dependence of Asset Returns: The Scaling Behaviour of the Markov-Switching Multifractal Model with Lognormal Volatility Components . Advances in Complex Systems, 11(5), 669-685.
- Lohse, T., Robledo, J., Schmidt, U. (Forthcoming). Self-Insurance and Self-Protection as Public Goods. Journal of Risk and Insurance
- Lux, T., (2009). Applications of Statistical Physics in Finance and Economics. Handbook of Research on Complexity, 213-258.
- Lux, T., Westerhoff, F. (2009). Economics Crisis. Nature Physics, 5, 2-3.
- Lux, T., (Forthcoming). Estimation of an Agent-Based Model of Investor Sentiment Formation in Financial Markets. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
- Lux, T., Morales-Arias, L. (2010). Forecasting Volatility under Fractality, Regime-Switching, Long Memory and Student-t Innovations. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 54 (11), 2676-2692.
- Lux, T., Stolzenburg, U. (Forthcoming). Identification of a Core-Periphery Structure Among Participants of a Business Climate Survey . European Physical Journal
- Lux, T., (2009). Rational Forecasts or Social Opinion Dynamics? Identification of Interaction Effects in a Business Climate Survey. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 72 (2), 638-655.
- Lux, T., (2011). Sentiment Dynamics and Stock Returns: The Case of the German Stock Market . Empirical Economics, 41, 663-679.
- Lux, T., (2009). Stochastic Behavioral Asset Pricing Models and the Stylized Facts. Handbook on Financial Markets, 161-215.
- Lux, T., (2008). The Markov-Switching Multifractal Model of Asset Returns: Estimation via GMM and Linear Forecasting of Volatility. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 26 (2), 194-210.
- Menkhoff, L., Schmeling, M., Schmidt, U. (2010). Are All Professional Investors Sophisticated?. German Economic Review, 11 (4), 418-440.
- Reitz, S., Rülke, J., Taylor, M. (Forthcoming). On the Nonlinear Influence of Reserve Bank of Australia Interventions on Exchange Rates. The Economic Record
- Roos, M., Schmidt, U. (Forthcoming). The importance of time series extrapolation for macroeconomic expectations. German Economic Review
- Schmidt, U., Zimper, A., , (2012). Explaining the harmonic sequence paradox. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology
- Schmidt, U., Starmer, C., Sudgen, R. (2008). Third-Generation Prospect Theory. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 36(3), 202-223.
- Trautmann, S., Schmidt, U. (2012). Pricing risk and ambiguity: The effect of perspective taking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(1), 195-205.
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Further Publications
- Alfarano, S., Lux, T., Milakovic, M. (2010). Topical issue on "Interdisciplinary Applications of Physics in Economics and Finance". The European Physical Journal B, 73(1), 1-2.
- Colander, D., Foellmer, H., Haas, A., Kirman, A., Juselius, K., Sloth, B., Lux, T., , (2009). Mathematics, Methods, and Modern Economics. real-world economics review, 50, 118-121.
- Faggini, M., Lux, T. (2008). Coping with the Complexity of Economics.. Springer, Berlin.
- Herwartz, H., Morales, L. An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between US Monetary Policy and International Asset Prices.
- Lux, T., (2011). Network theory is sorely required. Nature, 469, 303.
- Lux, T., Raberto, M. (Forthcoming). Special issue: Managing Financial Instability in Capitalist Economies. Economics, The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal
- Maschke, M., Schmidt, U. (2011). Das Wettmonopol in Deutschland: Status Quo und Reformansätze. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 60(1): 110-123
- Milakovic, M., Raddant, M., Birg, L. (2010). Hierarchy in Germany's Corporate Network. International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Asonam, IEEE, 395-396 pp.
- Milakovic, M., Alfarano, S., Lux, T. (2010). The Small Core of the German Corporate Board Network. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory, 16, 201-215.
- Schmidt, U., Zank, H. Endogenizing Prospekct Theory's Reference Point.
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Working Papers
- Alfarano, S., Lux, T. (2010). Extreme Value Theory as a Theoretical Background for Power Law Behavior. Kiel Working Paper, 1648, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 10 pp.
- Birnbaum, M., Schmidt, U. (2010). Allais Paradoxes Can be Reversed by Presenting Choices in Canonical Split Form. Kiel Working Papers, 1615, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 28 S.
- Birnbaum, M., Schmidt, U., , M. (2010). Testing Independence Conditions in the Presence of Errors and Splitting Effects. Kiel Working Papers, 1614, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 27 S.
- Colander, D., Föllmer, H., Haas, A., Goldberg, M., Juselius, K., Kirman, A., Lux, T., Sloth, B. (2009). The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics. Kiel Working Paper, 1489, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 17 pp.
- Cox, J., Sadiraj, V., Schmidt, U. (2011). Paradoxes and Mechanisms for Choice under Risk. Kiel Working Paper, 1712, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 44 pp.
- Dovern, J., Meier, C., Vilsmeier, J. (2008). How Resilient is the German Banking System to Macroeconomic Shocks?. Kiel Working Papers, 1419, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 21 pp.
- Fricke, D. (2010). Contagion Between European and US Banks: Evidence from Equity Prices. Kiel Working Paper, 1667, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 65 pp.
- Herwartz, H., Morales-Arias, L. (2010). An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between US Monetary Policy and International Asset Prices. Kiel Working Papers, 1581, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 38 pp.
- Irle, A., Kauschke, J., Lux, T., Milakovic, M. (2010). Switching Rates and the Asymptotic Behavior of Herding Models. Kiel Working Papers, 1595, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 16 pp.
- Kenett, D., Raddant, M., Lux, T., Ben-Jacob, E. (2011). Evolvement of uniformity and volatility in the stressed global financial village. Kiel Working Paper, 1739, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 27 pp.
- Koetter, M., Porath, D. (2006). Efficient, profitable and safe banking: an oxymoron? evidence from a panel VAR approach. Discussion Paper Series 2, Banking and financial studies, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt
- Leövey, A., Lux, T. (2011). Parameter Estimation and Forecasting for Multiplicative Lognormal Cascades. Kiel Working Paper, 1746, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 30 pp.
- Liu, R., Lux, T. (2010). Flexible and Robust Modelling of Volatility Comovements: A Comparison of Two Multifractal Models. Kiel Working Papers, 1594, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 32 pp.
- Liu, R., Di Matteo, T., Lux, T. (2008). Multifractality and Long-Range Dependence of Asset Returns: The Scaling Behaviour of the Markov-Switching Multifractal Model with Lognormal Volatility Components. Kiel Working Papers, 1427, Kiel Institute for the World Economy , Kiel, 15 pp.
- Lohse, T., Robledo, J., Schmidt, U. (2010). Self-Insurance and Self-Protection as Public Goods. Kiel Working Paper, 1613, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 28 S.
- Lux, T., Morales-Arias, L., Sattarhoff, C. (2011). A Markov-switching Multifractal Approach to Forecasting Realized Volatility. Kiel Working Paper, 1737, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 48 pp.
- Lux, T., (2008). Applications of Statistical Physics in Finance and Economics. Kiel Working Papers, 1425, Kiel Institute for the World Economy , Kiel, 69 pp.
- Lux, T., Morales-Arias, L. (2009). Forecasting Volatility under Fractality, Regime-Switching, Long Memory and Student-t Innovations. Kiel Working Paper, 1532, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 35 pp.
- Lux, T., (2009). Mass Psychology in Action: Identification of Social Interaction Effects in the German Stock Market. Kiel Working Paper, 1514, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 42 pp.
- Lux, T., (2008). Rational Forecasts or Social Opinion Dynamics? Identification of Interaction Effects in a Business Climate Survey. Kiel Working Papers, 1424, Kiel Institute for the World Economy , Kiel, 40 pp.
- Lux, T., Morales-Arias, L. (2010). Relative Forecasting Performance of Volatility Models: Monte Carlo Evidence. Kiel Working Papers, 1582, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 35 pp.
- Lux, T., (2008). Sentiment Dynamics and Stock Returns: The Case of the German Stock Market. Kiel Working Paper, 1470, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 28 pp.
- Lux, T., (2008). Stochastic Behavioral Asset Pricing Models and the Stylized Facts. Kiel Working Papers, 1426, Kiel Institute for the World Economy , Kiel, 79 pp.
- Menkhoff, L., Schmeling, M., Schmidt, U. (2010). Overconfidence, Experience, and Professionalism: An Experimental Study. Kiel Working Papers, 1612, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 17 pp.
- Michailova, J., Schmidt, U. (2011). Overconfidence and Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets. Kiel Working Paper, 1729, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 35 pp.
- Milakovic, M., Alfarano, S., Lux, T. (2008). The Small Core of the German Corporate Board Network. Kiel Working Paper, 1446, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 19 pp.
- Morales-Arias, L., Moura, G. (2010). A Conditionally Heteroskedastic Global Inflation Model. Kiel Working Paper, 1666, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 38 pp.
- Morales-Arias, L., Dross, A. (2010). Adaptive Forecasting of Exchange Rates with Panel Data. Kiel Working Paper, 1656, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 48 pp.
- Prelle, C., Irle, A. (2008). A Note on Arbitrage under Transaction Costs. Kiel Working Paper, 1450, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 7 pp.
- Prelle, C., Irle, A. (2008). A renewal theoretic result in portfolio theory under transaction costs with multiple risky assets. Kiel Working Paper, 1449, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 28 pp.
- Reitz, S., Taylor, M. (2012). FX Intervention in the Yen-US Dollar Market: A Coordination Channel Perspective. Kiel Working Paper, 1765, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 27 pp.
- Reitz, S., Rülke, J., Stadtmann, G. (2011). Nonlinear Expectations in Speculative Markets - Evidence from the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters. Kiel Working Paper, 1706, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 39 pp.
- Roos, M., Schmidt, U. (2011). The importance of time series extrapolation for macroeconomic expectations. Kiel Working Paper, 1723, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 25 pp.
- Schmidt, U. (2010). Asymmetrically Dominated Alternatives and Random Incentive Mechanisms. Kiel Working Paper, 1646, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 5 pp.
- Schmidt, U., Zank, H. (2010). Endogenizing Prospect Theory's Reference Point. Kiel Working Papers, 1611, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 16 pp.
- Schmidt, U., Zimper, A. (2011). Explaining the harmonic sequence paradox. Kiel Working Paper, 1724, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 18 pp.
- Schmidt, U. (2012). Insurance Demand and Prospect Theory. Kiel Working Paper, 1750, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 6 pp.
- Schmidt, U., Trautmann, S. (2010). Common Consequence Effects with Pricing Data. Kiel Working Papers, 1610, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 6 pp.
- Trautmann, S., Schmidt, U., , (2011). Pricing risk and ambiguity: The effect of perspective taking. Kiel Working Paper, 1727, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 14 pp.