Felix Holzmeister, PhD

Platzhalterbild: MitarbeiterIn

Research Associate (PostDoc),
Department of Banking and Finance

Lab Manager of the Innsbruck EconLab

+43 (0) 512 507 73006

felix.holzmeister@uibk.ac.at

www.holzmeister.biz

SOWI o.4.10

upon request

Research

Research Interests

	Experimental and Behavioral Economics and Finance
	Judgement and Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty
	Reproducibility and Transparency of Research Practices
	Market Efficiency and Information Economics

Publications in Refereed Journals

	Holzmeister, F., Kerschbamer, R. (2019). oTree: The Equality Equivalence Test. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 22: 214-222.
	Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., Orthey, R., McCarthy, R. J., Skowronski, J. J., ... , Holzmeister, F., ... , Yildiz, E. (2018). Registered Replication Report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 1(3), 199-317.
	McCarthy, R. J., Skowronski, J. J., Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., Orthey, R., ... , Holzmeister, F., ... , Yildiz, E. (2018). Registered Replication Report on Srull and Wyer (1979). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 1(3), 321-336.
	Camerer, C. F., Dreber, A., Holzmeister, F., Ho, T. H., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Nave, G., Nosek, B. A., Pfeiffer, T., Altmejd, A., Buttrick, N., Chan, T., Chen, Y., Forsell, E., Gampa, A., Heikenstein, E., Hummer, L., Taisuke, I., Isaksson, S., Manfredi, D., Rose, J., Wagenmakers, E.-J., and Wu, H. (2018). "Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015", Nature Human Behaviour 2, 637-644.
	Stefan, M., Holzmeister, F., Müllauer, A., and Kirchler, M. (2018). "Ethnical discrimination in Europe: Field evidence from the Finance industry", Plos One 13(1): e0191959.
	Holzmeister, F. (2017). "oTree: Ready-made apps for risk preference elicitation methods", Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 16: 33-38.
	Holzmeister, F. and Pfurtscheller, A. (2016). "oTree: The "bomb" risk elicitation task", Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 10: 105-108.
	Camerer, C.F., Dreber, A., Forsell, E., Ho, T.H., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Almenberg, J., Altmejd, A., Chan, T., Heikensten, E., Holzmeister, F., Imai, T., Isaksson, S., Nave, G., Pfeiffer, T., Razen, M., and Wu, H. (2016). "Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in economics", Science 351(6280): 1433-1436.

Work-in-Progress

	Crowdsourcing Hypothesis Tests: Making Transparent How Design Choices Shape Research Results (joint with Landy, J., Jia, M., Ding, I., Viganola, D., Tierney, W., ..., Uhlmann, E.). Revise and resubmit.
	Neuroimaging Analysis Replication and Prediction Study: Raw and Preprocessed fMRI Data of Mixed Gambles (joint with Botvinik-Nezer, R., ..., Schonberg, T.). Under review.
	What Drives Risk Perception? A Global Survey With Financial Professionals and Lay People (joint with Huber, J., Kichler, M., Lindner, F., Weitzel, U., Zeisberger, S.). Under review.
	The Risk Elicitation Puzzle Revisited: Across-Methods (In)consistency? (joint with Stefan, M.) Under review.
	Cognitive Skills and Economic Preferences in the Fund Industry (joint with Farago, A., Holmén, M., Kirchler, M., Razen, M.) Completing data analysis and writing-up manuscript.
	Portfolio Choice: Helping Investors to Pick What They Like (joint with Razen, M., Stefan, M.) Analyzing data and preparing manuscript.
	Delegated Investment Decisions: Experimental and Register Data (joint with Holmén, M., Holzmeister, F., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M., Wengström, E.). Analyzing data and preparing manuscript.
	Preferences and Behavioral Characteristics of Finance Professionals and Lay People (joint with Holmén, M., Holzmeister, F., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M., Wengström, E.). Analyzing data and preparing manuscript.
	Neuroimaging Analysis Replication and Prediction Study (NARPS) (joint with Botvinik-Nezer, R., ..., Schonberg, T.). Data collection ongoing.
	Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) (joint with Pfeiffer, T., Chen, Y., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Viganola, D.). Data collection starting soon.

Selected Presentations

	Spring Meeting of the Research Center "Organizations and Society". Innsbruck. April 2019.
	Swiss Society of Financial Market Research (Annual Meeting). Zurich. April 2019.
	Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence, Kick-off Meeting. Arlington. January 2019.
	Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Odense. September 2018.
	Conference on Decision Sciences. Konstanz. September 2018.
	Economic Science Association, World Meeting. Berlin. June 2018.
	Experimental Finance Conference. Heidelberg. June 2018.
	Euregio Economics Workshop, Bolzano-Innsbruck-Trento. Innsbruck. March 2018.
	Economic Science Association, European Meeting. Vienna. September 2017.
	Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference. Faro. June 2017.
	Empirical and Experimental Economics Workshop. Innsbruck. March 2017.
	Research in Behavioral Finance Conference. Amsterdam. September 2016.
	Experimental Finance Conference. Mannheim. June 2016.

Selected Media Coverage

	"Ergebnisse von Studien in Top-Journalen nicht immer reproduzierbar", Der Standard, August 28, 2018.
	"More social science studies just failed to replicate. Here’s why this is good.", Vox, August 27, 2018.
	"In psychology and other social sciences, many studies fail the reproducibility test", NPR, August 27, 2018.
	"The science behind social science gets shaken up - again", Wired, August 27, 2018.
	"A far from dismal outcome", The Economist, March 5, 2016.
	"Experimental economics: Results you can trust", Phys.org, March 3, 2016.

Selected Grants, Prices, and Awards

	Hypo Tirol Bank Research Grant (joint with M. Stefan), December 2016.
	Research Support Grant, University of Innsbruck, July 2015.
	VKB Science Award 2014, Volkskreditbank AG, May 2015.
	Merit Scholarship Grant, University of Innsbruck, November 2014.
	Merit Scholarship Grant, University of Innsbruck, December 2013.

Ad-hoc Referee

Bulletin of Economic Research (1), Economic Letters (1), European Economic Review (1), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance (6), Journal of Economic Psychology (3), Science Advances (1), Sloan Foundation (1)

Teaching

	Applied Empirical Finance Lecture and Seminar, MSc.-Level, University of Innsbruck WT-2016, ST-2017
	Basics in Microeconomics Seminars, BSc.-Level, University of Innsbruck WT-2015, WT-2017
	Behavioral Finance Seminar, Advances Education for Banking Staff, Raiffeisen State Association WT-2018, ST-2019
	Empirical Finance Lecture and Seminar, MSc.-/MBA.-Level, Danube-University Krems WT-2015
	Experimental Finance Lecture and Seminar, MSc.-/MBA.-Level, Danube-University Krems WT-2017
	Introduction to oTree Seminar/Tutorial, Experimental Finance Summer School, Nice ST-2017
	Layout, Format & Style using LaTeX Seminar/Tutorial, University of Innsbruck WT-2016
	Models of Empirical Finance Lecture and Seminar, MSc.-Level, University of Innsbruck WT-2017, WT-2018
	Public Finance Seminars, BSc.-Level, University of Innsbruck WT-2017
	Principles of Finance Seminars, BSc.-Level, University fo Innsbruck WT-2016, ST-2017, WT-2018, ST-2019

Appointments and Education

Appointments

07\|2018 -	Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Banking and Finance, University of Innsbruck.
03\|2018 -	Lab Manager (joint with C. Huber) of the Innsbruck EconLabs.
03\|2018 - 11\|2018	Guest Editor "Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance" (special issue).
01\|2015 - 06\|2018	Research Assistant and Lecturer, Department of Banking and Finance, University of Innsbruck.
03\|2012 - 12\|2014	Project Assistant, Department of Banking and Finance, University of Innsbruck.

Research Visits

01\|2019	DARPA SCORE Kick-Off Meeting, Arlington.
04\|2017 - 05\|2017	University of Gothenburg, Centre for Finance.
04\|2017	Stockholm School of Economics.

Education

10\|2014 - 06\|2018	PhD Program in "Economics", University of Innsbruck & University of Linz.
10\|2012 - 06\|2014	MSc Program in "Banking and Finance", University of Innsbruck.
10\|2008 - 02\|2012	BSc Program in "Management and Economics", University of Innsbruck.