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    • Towards a Well-Founded Valuation of Managerial Flexibilities in IT Investment Projects - A Multidisciplinary Literature Review
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    • Die Riemannsche Vermutung
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    • Breaking Bad: Parameter Uncertainty Caused by Structural Breaks in Stocks
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    • Factor Chasing and the Cross-Country Factor Momentum Anomaly
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    • Factor Chasing and the Cross-Country Factor Momentum Anomaly
    • Factor Chasing and the Cross-Country Factor Momentum Anomaly
    • Too much information: When reducing the informational content of input parameters yields better portfolios
    • Parameter Uncertainty, Financial Turbulence and Aggregate Stock Return
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    • The Price of Populism: Financial Market Outcomes of Populist Electoral Success
    • Parameter Uncertainty, Financial Turbulence and Aggregate Stock Returns
    • Parameter Uncertainty, Financial Turbulence and Aggregate Stock Returns
    • Turbulence in the Cross-Section: Predicting Factor Premia
    • Parameter Uncertainty, Financial Turbulence and Aggregate Stock Returns
    • Political Populism and Financial Markets
    • Turbulence in the Cross-Section: Predicting Factor Premia
    • Turbulence in the Cross-Section: Predicting Factor Premia
    • Turbulence in the Cross-Section: Predicting Factor Premia
    • Parameter Uncertainty, Financial Turbulence and Aggregate Stock Return
    • Parameter Uncertainty, Financial Turbulence and Aggregate Stock Returns
    • Parameter Uncertainty, Financial Turbulence and Aggregate Stock Return
    • Parameter Uncertainty, Financial Turbulence and Aggregate Stock Returns
    • Financial Turbulence, Parameter Uncertainty and Aggregate Stock Returns
    • Higher Moments Matter! Cross-Sectional (higher) Moments and the Predictability of Stock Returns
    • Financial Turbulence and Aggregate Stock Returns
    • The Economic Benefit of Forecasting Market Components for Mean-Variance Investors
    • Financial Turbulence and Aggregate Stock Returns
    • Portfolio Turbulence and the Predictability of Stock Returns
    • Portfolio Turbulence and the Predictability of Stock Returns
    • Comoment Factors and the Predictability of Stock Returns
    • Valuation of Real Options on IT Investments — A Simulation Model based on Modified Assumptions
    • Financial Applications of the Mahalanobis Distance
    • PRIX - A Risk Index for Global Private Investors
    • Financial Applications of the Mahalanobis Distance
    • PRIX - A Risk Index for Global Private Investors
    • What drives our beer consumption? - In search of nutrition habits and demographic patterns
    • A Risk Index for Global Private Investors
    • Towards a Precise Valuation of Interdependent IT Projects – A Real Option Approach Considering Unhedgeable Risks
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Paper **[Lost in Translation](/publications/2026_lost_in_translation/)** accepted in the *Journal of Forecasting*!

Jan 1, 2026·
Sebastian Stöckl
Sebastian Stöckl
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Last updated on 2026-07-06
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