Research
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Behavioral Economics and Finance, Experimental Economics and Finance, Personnel and Organizational Economics, Applied Game Theory, Sports Economics, Decision Theory, Preferences
PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Mean markets or kind commerce (with Martin Dufwenberg, Olof Johansson-Stenman, Michael Kirchler, and Rene Schweiger), Journal of Public Economics, 209 (May 2022): Article 104648, 2022.
Social motives and risk-taking in investment decisions (with Michael Kirchler, Stephanie Rosenkranz, and Utz Weitzel), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 127: Article 104116, 2021.
Delegated investment decisions and rankings (with Michael Kirchler and Utz Weitzel), Journal of Banking and Finance, 120: Article 105952, 2020.
What drives risk perception? A global survey with financial professionals and lay people (with Felix Holzmeister, Jürgen Huber, Michael Kirchler, Utz Weitzel, and Stefan Zeisberger), Management Science, 66(9): 3799-4358, 2020.
Bubbles and financial professionals (with Christoph Huber, Jürgen Huber, Michael Kirchler, Julia Rose, and Utz Weitzel), Review of Financial Studies, 33(6): 2659-2696, 2020.
Determinants of investors expectations and statisfaction. A study with financial professional (with Rene Schwaiger, Michael Kirchler, and Utz Weitzel), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 110: Article 103675, 2020 [Special Issue: Experimental and behavioral analyses in macroeconomics and finance].
Rankings and risk-taking in the finance industry (with Michael Kirchler and Utz Weitzel), Journal of Finance 73(5): 2271-2302, 2018.
No need for more time: Intertemporal allocation decisions under time pressure (with Julia Rose), Journal of Economic Psychology 60: 53-70, 2017 [Special Issue: Stability of Preferences].
The optimal allocation of prizes in tournaments of heterogeneous agents (with Loukas Balafoutas, E. Glenn Dutcher and Dmitry Ryvkin), Economic Inquiry 55(1): 461-478, 2017.
Strive to be first or avoid being last: An experiment on relative performance incentives (with E. Glenn Dutcher, Loukas Balafoutas, Dmitry Ryvkin and Matthias Sutter), Games and Economic Behavior 94: 39-56, 2015.
Hot hand and gambler's fallacy in teams: Evidence from investment experiments (with Thomas Stöckl, Jürgen Huber and Michael Kirchler), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 117: 327-339, 2015.
Decision time and steps of reasoning in a competitive market entry game, Economics Letters 122(1): 7-11, 2014.
Level-k reasoning and time pressure in the 11-20 money request game (with Matthias Sutter), Economics Letters 120(3): 542-545, 2013.
Sabotage in tournaments: Evidence from a natural experiment (with Loukas Balafoutas and Matthias Sutter), Kyklos 65(4): 425-441, 2012 [Lead Article].
WORKING PAPERS & SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
Choking under pressure of top athletes: Evidence from Biathlon competitions, University of Innsbruck Working Papers in Economics and Statistics 2017-24, R&R Journal of Economic Psychology, inactive.
Lab rats are selfish: The effect of across-experimental experience on social preferences (with Benjamin Buschmann and Martin Kocher), inactive.
Sorting and selection effects in tournament mechanisms: An experimental investigation, inactive.
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESEARCH FUNDING
OeNB Research Grant 17788 "Global Evidence on Trust and Trustworthiness in the Finance Industry" (€197,000, 2018-2022)
Research Grant 2018, Tyrolean Science Fund (TWF) >>link
Award for Presentation at the AEA Meeting 2017 of the German Science Association, December 2017
Research Grant 2015, Hypo Tirol Bank >>link
Research Grant 2014, University of Munich
Award of Excellence, Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research, December 2013 >> link
Science Award of the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce, December 2013 >> link1 >> link2
Award for Presentation at the EEA 2013 Conference of the German Science Association, December 2013
Recognition Award of the Jury of the "LFUI Best Student Paper Award", June 2013 >> link