Prof. Dr. Sebastian Ebert Saving and Individual Investment Behavior

On April 13, 2025, the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ) published an Interview with Sebastian Ebert on „Why saving is so hard.“ He talked about psychological foundations of the underlying self-control problem, and also mentioned several techniques to improve on one’s own saving skills, such as the changing of habits. An online version of the interview is available below. 

Later that month he was live in the ARD Morgenmagazin in Cologne, giving two interviews about successful saving and consumer pricing, as well as related behavioral concepts such as time-inconsistency, pre-commitment, and attention hurdles. One of the interviews is available in the ARD Mediathek, linked below.

On April 24, 2025, Sebastian Ebert was quoted on principles of market timing and market efficiency in Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ), see the link for the online version. He explained why, also after the market turmoil succeeding Trump’s erratic tariff announcements, the optimal day to start with a long-term stock investment hardly exists.