Matthias Stefan, PhD
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Associate Dean of Studies (Master Banking and Finance)
Department of Banking and Finance
SOWI o.4.15
upon request
Research
Research Interests
Behavioral and methodological questions in Economics and Finance
Publications
Working Paper
You Can't Always Get What You Want: An Experiment on Finance Professionals' Decisions for Others
(Stefan, M., Holmen, M., Holzmeister, F., Kirchler, M., Wengström, E. ) Preprint on SSRN
The Impact of Presentation Format and Choice Architecture on Portfolio Allocations: Experimental Evidence
(Bachler, S., Holzmeister, F., Razen, M., Stefan, M.). Working Paper at SSRN
Publications in Refereed Journals
Stefan, M., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Sutter, M., Walzl, M. (2023), Monetary and Social Incentives in Multi-Tasking: The Ranking Substitution Effect, European Economic Review: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104458
Holmen, M., Holzmeister, F., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M., Wengström, E. (2023), Economic Preferences and Personality Traits Among Finance Professionals and the General Population, Economic Journal: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead038
Holzmeister, F., Holmen, M., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M., Wengström, E. (2022), Delegation Decisions in Finance, Management Science: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4555
Häussler, S., Stefan, M. Schneckenreither, M., Onay, A. (2021), The lead time updating trap: Analyzing human ordering behavior in capacitated supply chains. International Journal of Production Economics: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108034.
Holzmeister, F., Stefan, M. (2020), The risk elicitation puzzle revisited: Intra- and inter-subject (in)consistencies across methods. Experimental Economics: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-020-09674-8.
Razen, M., Huber, J., Huber, L., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M. (2020), Financial Literacy, Economic Preferences, and Adolescents' Field Behavior. Finance Research Letters: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101728
Razen, M., Stefan, M. (2019), Greed: Taking a deadly sin to the lab. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 81, 164-171.
Sutter, M., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M., Walzl, M. (2019), Where to look for the morals in markets. Experimental Economics 23, 30–52.
Stefan, M., Holzmeister, F., Müllauer, A., Kirchler, M. (2018). Ethnical discrimination in Europe: Field evidence from the Finance industry. Plos One: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191959.
Kirchler, M., Andersson, D., Bonn, C., Johannesson, M., Sørensen, E., Stefan, M., Tinghög, G., Västfjäll, D. (2017), The effect of fast and slow decisions on risk taking. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 54(1), 37-59.
Stefan, M (2016), On the impact of semantic framing in experimental asset markets. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 9, 81-87.
Kirchler, M., Huber, J., Stefan, M., Sutter, M. (2015), Market design and moral behavior. Management Science, 62(9), 2615-2625.
Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M. (2014), Experimental evidence on varying uncertainty and skewness in laboratory double-auction markets. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 107, 798–809.
Monographs
Razen, M., Huber, J., Hueber, L., Kirchler, M., Obermeier, M., Stefan, M. (2020): FiT - Ein innovatives Finanztrainingsprogramm für Jugendliche. Studia Verlag Innsbruck.
Gasser, G., Stefan, M. (Eds.) (2013), Personal Identity. Complex or simple? Cambridge University Press.
Contributions to Crowd Science
Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration. Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science 70(3), 1343-2022.
Landy, J. F., Jia, M., Ding, I. L., Viganola, D., Tierney, W., . . . Uhlmann, E. L. (2019) Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results. Psychological Bulletin 146(5), 451-479.
Presentations
Nordic Conference in Behavioral and Experimental Economics 2024, Copenhagen. GATE Lab Seminar 2024, Lyon. Euregio Workshop 2023, Innsbruck. Financial advice, and Portfolio Choice of Households Workshop, Paris 2022. AWG Workshop 2022, Klagenfurt. Maastricht Behavioral Economic Policy Symposium, 2022. Brownbag Seminar Economics and Finance Jönköping, 2021. Research Seminar Center for Environmental Economics Montpellier, 2021. IFAC World Congress 2020. ZEW Workshop on Market Design 2019, Mannheim. Experimental Finance Conference 2019, Copenhagen. Euregio Workshop 2019, Trento. Conference on Decision Science 2018, Konstanz. Experimental Finance Conference 2018, Heidelberg. Workshop on Experimental Finance, Bonn 2018. Research Seminar Max Planck Institute Bonn, 2018. SAET Conference 2017, Faro. Experimental Finance 2017, Nice. Research Seminar Chapman University, 2016. Experimental Finance 2016, Mannheim. Euregio Workshop 2016, Bolzano. Workshop 'Time in Economic Decision Making' 2014, Munich. Experimental Finance 2014, Zurich. Research Seminar University of Innsbruck 2014. Meeting 'Organizations and Society' 2013, Innsbruck. Experimental Finance 2012, Luxembourg.
Referee
PCI Registered Reports, Management Science, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, International Economic Review, Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Psychology, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Communications Psychology, European Journal of Political Economy, Credit and Capital Markets
Grants, Prices, and Awards
OENB Jubilaeumsfonds, 2024
Young Scientist Grant, University of Innsbruck, 2018
Research grant, Hypo Tirol Bank, 2016 (with F. Holzmeister)
Award for promoting the dialogue between Economics, Ethics and Religion (Pater Johannes Schasching SJ-Award), 2016 (with J. Huber, M. Kirchler and M. Sutter)
Research grant, Aktion D. Swarovski KG, 2015
Teaching
University of Innsbruck: Financial Management I (Bac), Financial Management II (Bac), Behavioral Finance (Bac), Entrepreneurial Decision-Making (Bac), Ethical Reflections (MA), Methodological Reflections (MA), Experimental Economics (MA)
Other: FiT - Financial Training for High School Students using Experimental Economics (Razen, M., Huber, J., Hueber, L., Kirchler, M. and AK Tirol), Advanced Education for Raiffeisen South Tyrol
Appointments and Education
Appointments
2020 -
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Banking and Finance, University of Innsbruck
2017 - 2021
Conference Officer, Society for Experimental Finance
2016 - 2020
PostDoc, Department of Banking and Finance, University of Innsbruck
2012 - 2016
Research Assistant, Department of Banking and Finance, University of Innsbruck
Research Visits
1-3 2020 | Chapman University, California
06 2019 | University of Gothenburg
02 2018 | Max Planck Institute, Bonn
09 2016 | Chapman University, California
Education
2012 – 2016
PhD Management
2007 – 2011
Master Business Administration
2003 – 2007
Master Philosophy
1999 – 2003
Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium Lauterach