Rene Schwaiger, PhD

 

Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Banking and Finance

  +43 (0) 512 507 73019

  rene.schwaiger@uibk.ac.at

  SOWI o.4.10

 upon request

 Research

Research Interests

  • Cognitive Biases
  • Meta-Science
  • Environmental Economics
  • Preferences

Publications

  • Schwaiger, R., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Kleinlercher, D., Weitzel, U. (2022): Unequal Opportunities, Social Groups, and Redistribution. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 100 (101911). [Link]

  • Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Schwaiger, R. (2022): Nudging Debtors to Pay Their Debt: Two Randomized Controlled Trials. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 198, pp. 535-551[Link]

  • Hueber, L., Schwaiger, R. (2022): Debiasing Through Experience Sampling: The Case of Myopic Loss Aversion.
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 198, pp. 87-138. [Link]


  • Dufwenberg, M., Johansson-Stenman, O., Kirchler, M., Lindner, F., Schwaiger, R. (2022): Mean Markets or Kind Commerce?
    Journal of Public Economics, 209 (104648)[Link]

  • Schwaiger, R., Hueber, L. (2021): Do MTurkers Exhibit Myopic Loss Aversion?
    Economics Letters, 209 (110137). [Link]

  • Schwaiger, R., Kirchler, M., Lindner, F., Weitzel, U. (2020): Determinants of investor expectations and
    satisfaction. A study with financial professionals.
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 110 (103675). [Link]

Selected Working Papers & Work In Progress

  • Bachler, S., Flecke, S. L., Schwaiger, R. (2023): Carbon Pricing, Carbon Dividends and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence. Working Papers in Economics and Statistics, 2023-07. [Link]

  • Flecke, S. L., Schwaiger, R., Huber, J., Kirchler, M. (2023).: Nature Experiences and Pro-Environmental Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial. Working Papers in Economics and Statistics, 2023-13.  [Link]

  • Schwaiger, R., Strucks, M., Zeisberger, S. (2023): Myopic Loss Aversion: A Stress Test.

  • Holzmeister, F.,  Johannesson, M., Camerer, C. F., Chen, Y., Ho, T-H., Hoogeveen, S., Huber, J., Imai, N., Imai, T.,  Jin, L., Kirchler, M., Ly, A., Mandl, B., Manfredi, D., Nave, G., Nosek, B. A., Pfeiffer, T., Sarafoglou, A., Schwaiger, R., Wagenmakers, E-J., Waldén, V., Dreber, A. (2023): Replication by plebiscite: Examining the replicability of online experiments selected by a decision market.

Reviewer Activities

  • PLOS ONE, 2023.
  • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 2023.
  • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2022, 2023.
  • Journal of Banking and Finance, 2021.
  • German Economic Review, 2021.

 Awards, Grants and Research Funding

  • Clemens-August-Andreae-Award 2023 for the best PhD thesis in economics at the University of Innsbruck.
  • Tyrolean Science Funding (TWF), Federal state of Tyrol, December 2022.
  • Research Grant (Förderungsstipendium) for experimental research, University of Innsbruck, July 2020.
  • Research Grant, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), University of Innsbruck, July 2020.
  • LFUI Best Student Paper Award 2019, University of Innsbruck, September 2019.

  Teaching and other Activities

  • Portfolio College Expert, Hypo Tirol Bank, 2024 - ongoing.
  • PS Financial Management, 2018 – 2023.
  • Co-supervision of bachelor theses, 2018 – 2021.
  • Bachelor's Seminar, summer term 2021 - 2023.
  • Core Module Corporate Finance, MBA, Danube University Krems, 2021.
  • Corporate Decision-Making and Societal Responsibility, 2022 - ongoing.

  • Scientific Coordinator of the EconLab of the University of Innsbruck, 2023 - ongoing.
  • Co-Organisation Climate Action Workshop, 2023.
  • Curriculum Committee (substitute member), 2022.
  • Participation in the event "Junge Uni", 2022.
  • Co-Organisation NOeG Annual Meeting, 2021.
  • Participation in the Festival of Science, 2019.

  Selected Talks

  • 11/2023 ▪ BAFIT Network Meeting ▪ Innsbruck
  • 09/2023 ▪ IDS Workshop ▪ Innsbruck
  • 07/2023 ▪ Venice Workshop: Private vs. Public Solutions to Collective Action Problems ▪ Venice
  • 06/2023 ▪ Experimental Finance Conference 2023 ▪ Sofia
  • 11/2022 ▪ Experimental Finance Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting 2022  ▪ Online
  • 06/2022 ▪ Experimental Finance Conference 2022 ▪ Bonn
  • 02/2022 ▪ 2022 ESA Special Meeting Buenos Aires  ▪ Online
  • 06/2021 ▪ Experimental Finance Conference 2021 ▪ Online
  • 03/2021 ▪ 96th Annual WEAI Conference 2021 ▪ Online
  • 09/2019 ▪ PhD Seminar, Johannes-Kepler-University Linz ▪ Linz, Austria

  Media Coverage

  • 26.05.2023 ▪ Tirols Immobilienpreise rasen den Einkommen davon. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung. [Link]

  Education

  • 2017 – 2021 ▪ PhD in Economics, joint program of the universities of Innsbruck & Linz.
  • 2015 – 2017 ▪ MSc in Banking and Finance, University of Innsbruck.
  • 2012 – 2015 ▪ BSc in Management and Economics, University of Innsbruck.



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