About me

I am a Professor at the Management Center Innsbruck. My main research interests are:

  • Experimental Finance
  • Organisational Economics
  • Behavioural Economics

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Résumé

CURRENT POSITION

  • since 2023: Professor
    • at the Management Center Innsbruck

EDUCATION

  • 2015-2020: Ph.D. in Economics
    • at the University of Glasgow
    • Supervised by Prof. Sayantan Ghosal and Prof. Yiannis Vailakis
  • 2013 - 2015: MSc in Economics
    • at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich
  • 2009 - 2012: BA in Economies and Politics of East Asia
    • at the Ruhr-University Bochum

PAST POSITIONS

  • 2019-2023: Assistant Professor
    • at the Management Center Innsbruck
  • 2016: Research Assistant for Prof. Ghosal working with the Scottish Government
  • 2014 - 2015: Research Assistant for Dr. Mueller-Langer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition

To download my full CV, please click here.

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Research

PUBLICATIONS:

  • National Differences in Gambling-Driven Stock Trading Behavior: Evidence from a Simulated Trading Game (with Jakob Windisch), accepted at Financial Markets and Portfolio Management manuscript
  • Unlearning Investment Biases, accepted at the Journal of Behavioral Finance manuscript STATA-code data data_aggregated
  • The Effect of Fragile Self-Esteem on Course Completion in Higher Education, European Journal of Management Issues (2022) (with Martin Dinter and Sandra Grässle) manuscript

  • Matching efficiency of admission procedures in online education (with Sandra Grässle and Maria Pammer), LTEC Proceedings (2022) manuscript
  • Salience and Management-by-Exception, Managerial and Decision Economics (2022) manuscript
  • Watching the Watchmen: Assessment-Biases in Waiting List Prioritization for the Delivery of Mental Health Services (with Fabian Kreiseder), European Journal of Management Issues (2022) manuscript
  • The Stock Market as a Casino: Associations Between Frequent Stock Market Trading and Problem Gambling (with Philip Newall and Lukasz Walasek), Journal of Behavioral Addictions (2021) manuscript

WORKING PAPERS:

  • none right now

Work in progress:

  • Does age affect the relatability of role-models in continued education (with Prateek Bhan and Martin Dinter)
  • Good Stress and Bad Stress: The moderating role of emotional valence on the relationship between stress and effort provision (with Verena Pendic and Johannes Siebert)
  • Benevolent Dictators and Bad Matches: Countercyclical Risk-Aversion with Delegated Portfolios (with Simon Czermak)

Policy papers:

  • Using Growth Diagnostics to Identify Policy Reform Priorities Download
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Presentations

I have presented in the following conferences:
  • 2024: 14th Bavarian Congress on Gambling (Munich)
  • 2022: Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences (Prague), Experimental Finance (Bonn), LTEC (Hagen)
  • 2021: 36th Workshop of the AWGBAF (Graz)
  • 2020: Annual meeting of the GEA (Cologne)
  • 2019: AMSE Interaction Seminar (Marseille), Annual RES conference (Warwick), 34th Workshop of the AWGBAF (Vaduz)
  • 2018: 1st Workshop for PhD & Post-doctoral students (Queen Mary), Committe for Org. Econ. of the GEA (Hamburg), SAEe (Madrid), BiGSEM (Bielefeld)
  • 2017: SGPE Crieff Conference (Edinburgh), Economic Lunchtime Seminar (Glasgow)
  • 2016: BSI PhD Workshop (Glasgow), Brownbag Seminar (Glasgow)
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Teaching

Course Convenor for the following courses:
  • 2025-today: Behavioral Economics, graduate course at the Management Center Innsbruck
  • 2024-today: Investing in Financial Markets, undergraduate elective course at the Management Center Innsbruck
  • 2023-today: Data Science and Statistics, undergraduate course at the Management Center Innsbruck
  • 2022-2024: Financial Markets, graduate course at the Management Center Innsbruck
  • 2019-today: Data Management and Statistics, undergraduate course at the Management Center Innsbruck
  • 2019-today: Finance and Investment, undergraduate course at the Management Center Innsbruck
  • 2019-today: Economics, graduate course at the Management Center Innsbruck
  • 2019-today: Stat. and Math. Methods, M.B.A. course at the Management Center Innsbruck
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Other

  • 2022: Research funding granted from the Tiroler Wissenschaftsförderung (€ 13,400)
  • 2017: RES Easter Training School at the University of Essex
  • 2016: Summer School “Crash Course in Experimental Economics” at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam
  • 2016: Awarded Universitas 21-scholarship by the University of Amsterdam (€ 500)
  • 2016: Co-Founder and President of the Glasgow Brown Bag Seminars in Microeconomics at the University of Glasgow
  • 2015: Adam Smith Business School Scholarship for Doctoral Studies (£ 42,000)
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