Research

  Research Interests

• Experimental and Behavioral Economics & Finance
  
• Risk and Uncertainty, 
• Decision Making for Others
• Social Norms
• Meta Research

  Publications

Publications in Refereed Journals

• Diekert, F., Goeschl, T., König-Kersting, C. (2024). Attribution to anthropogenic causes helps prevent adverse events. Journal of the Association of Environmental & Resource Economists, forthcoming.
• Huber, C., König-Kersting, C., and Marini, M. (2024). Experimenting with Financial Professionals. Journal of Banking & Finance, 170, 107329.
• König-Kersting, C. (2024). On the robustness of social norm elicitation. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 10, 531-543.
• Gsottbauer, E., Kirchler, M., and König-Kersting, C. (2024). Climate Crisis Attitudes among Financial Professionals and Climate Experts. Communications Earth and Environment, 5, 159.
• König-Kersting, C., Kops, C., and Trautmann S.T. (2023). A Test of (Weak) Certainty Independence. Journal of Economic Theory, 105623.
• Huber, J., Inoua, S.M., Kerschbamer, R., König-Kersting, C., Palan, S., and Smith, V.L. (2022). Nobel and novice: Author prominence affects peer review. PNAS, 119(41), e2205779119.
• Kling, L., König-Kersting, C., and Trautmann S.T. (2022). Investment Preferences and Risk Perception: Financial Agents versus Clients. Journal of Banking & Finance, 106489.
• Schmidt, R., Heinicke, F., and König-Kersting, C. (2022). Using coordination games to measure beliefs. Economics Letters, 219, 110821
  
• Heinicke, F., König-Kersting, C., and Schmidt, R. (2022). Injunctive vs. Descriptive Social Norms and Reference Group Dependence. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 195, 199-218.
• König-Kersting, C., Trautmann, S. T., and Vlahu, R. (2022). Bank instability: Interbank linkages and the role of disclosure. Journal of Banking & Finance, 134, 106353.
• Trautmann, S.T., Xu, Y., König-Kersting, C., Patenaude, B. N., Harling, G., Sié, A., and Bärnighausen, T. (2021). Value of Statistical Life Year in extreme poverty: A randomized experiment of measurement methods in rural Burkina Faso. Population Health Metrics, 19, 45.
• König-Kersting, C., Pollmann, M., Potters, J., and Trautmann, S.T. (2021). Good decision vs. good results: Outcome bias in the evaluation of financial agents. Theory and Decision, 90, 31-61.
• Özgümüs, A., Rau, H. A., Trautmann, S. T., and König-Kersting, C. (2020). Gender bias in the evaluation of teaching materials. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1074.
• König-Kersting, C. (2019). oTree Manager: Multi-user oTree installations made easy. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 22, 177-182.
• König-Kersting, C. and S. T. Trautmann (2018). Countercyclical Risk Aversion: Beyond Financial Professionals. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 18, 94-101.
• König-Kersting, C. and S. T. Trautmann (2016). Ambiguity Attitudes in Decisions for Others. Economics Letters, 146, 126-129.
  Supplementary Analysis: König-Kersting, C. and S. T. Trautmann (2016). Test of Order Effects in Ambiguity Attitude Measurement.

Book Chapters

• Füllbrunn, S., Huber, C., and König-Kersting, C. (2021). Experimental Finance and Financial Professionals, forthcoming in: Füllbrunn, S. and Haruvy, E. (Eds.) Handbook of Experimental Finance, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Contributions to Crowd-Sourced Research Projects

• Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A. I., & Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration. (2024). Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science, 70(3), 1343-1356.

Working Papers

• Huber, C., Holzmeister, F., Johannesson, M., König-Kersting, C., Dreber, A., Huber, J., and Kirchler, M. (2024). Do experimental asset market results replicate? High-powered preregistered replications of 17 claims. University of Innsbruck Working Papers in Economics and Statistics.
• Jaspersen, J.G., König-Kersting, C., and Ragin, M.A. (2024). A Model of Anchoring and Adjustment for Decision-Making under Risk. SSRN Working Paper.
• Goeschl, T., Diekert, F., and König-Kersting, C. (2024). Adverse Experience and Behavioral Change: Natural versus Social Causes, Working Paper.
• Kieren, P., König-Kersting, C., Schmidt, R., Trautmann, S.T., Heinicke, F. (2024). First-Order and Higher-Order Inflation Expectations: Evidence about Households and Firms. Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper No 18/2024.
• König-Kersting, C. and Trautmann, S.T. (2023). Grit, Discounting, and Time Inconsistency. UIBK Working Papers in Economics and Statistics.
  
• König-Kersting, C., Lohse, J., and Merkel, A. L. (2020). Active and Passive Risk-Taking. UIBK Working Papers in Economics and Statistics.
  

   Ad-hoc Referee

Economic Inquiry, Experimental Economics, FACETS, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of FinTech, Management Science, PLOS One, Theory and Decision.

  Appointments and Education

  Education

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