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  Research

Research Interests

	Experimental and Behavioral Economics and Finance
	Judgement and Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty
	Reproducibility of Experimental Results in the Behavioral Sciences
	Markets for Credence Goods, Incentives and Institutions
	Market Efficiency and Information Economics

Publications in Refereed Journals

	Botvinik-Nezer, R., Holzmeister, F., Camerer, C.F., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Iwanir, R., Mumford, J.A., ..., Nichols, T.E., Poldrack, R.A., Schonberg, T. (2019). Variability in the Analysis of a Single Functional Neuroimaging Dataset by Many Groups. Nature, online first.
	Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Lindner, F., & Weitzel, U. (2020). What Drives Risk Perception? A Global Survey With Financial Professionals and Lay People. Management Science, online first.
	Landy, J., Jia, M., Ding, I., Viganola, D., Tierney, W., ..., Holzmeister, F., ..., & Uhlmann, E. (2020). Crowdsourcing Hypothesis Tests: Making Transparent How Design Choices Shape Research Results. Psychological Bulletin, 146(5), 451–479.
	Botvinik-Nezer, R., Iwanir, R., Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Dreber, A., Camerer, C. F., Poldrack, R. A., & Schonberg, T. (2019). fMRI Data of Mixed Gambles from the Neuroimaging Analysis Replication and Prediction Study. Scientific Data, 6, 106.
	Holzmeister, F. & Kerschbamer, R. (2019). oTree: The Equality Equivalence Test. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 22, 214-222.
	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., ..., & Wu, H. (2018). Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015, Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 637-644.
	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.
	Stefan, M., Holzmeister, F., Müllauer, A., & Kirchler, M. (2018). Ethnical discrimination in Europe: Field evidence from the Finance industry, Plos One, 13(1), e0191959.
	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.
	Holzmeister, F. (2017). oTree: Ready-made Apps for Risk Preference Elicitation Methods, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 16, 33-38.
	Camerer, C.F., Dreber, A., Forsell, E., Ho, T.H., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Almenberg, J., Altmejd, A., ..., Holzmeister, F., ..., & Wu, H. (2016). Evaluating Replicability of Laboratory Experiments in Economics, Science, 351(6280), 1433-1436.
	Holzmeister, F. & Pfurtscheller, A. (2016). oTree: The "Bomb" Risk Elicitation Task, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 10, 105-108.

Textbooks

Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., & Schredelseker, K. (2019). Grundlagen der Finanzwirtschaft: Ein Informationsökonomischer Zugang (3rd revised and extended edition). Berlin: DeGruyter-Oldenbourg. ISBN: 978-3-11-060792-5.

Working Papers and Preprints

	Farago, A., Holmen, M., Holzmeister, F., Kirchler, M., & Razen, M. (2019). Cognitive Skills and Economic Preferences in the Fund Industry. Working Papers in Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck. Under review; preprint available at https://osf.io/964ba/.
	Gordon, M., Viganola, D., Bishop, M., Chen, Y., Dreber, A., Goldfedder, B., Holzmeister, F., Johannesson, M., Liu, Y., Twardy, C., Wang, J., & Pfeiffer, T. (2020). Are Replication Rates the Same Across Academic Fields? Community Forecasts from the DARPA SCORE Program. Mimeo. Under review.
	Holzmeister, F., Holmen, M., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M., & Wengström, E. (2019). Delegated Decision-Making in Finance. Working Papers in Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck. Under review; preprint available at https://osf.io/3umdf/.
	Holzmeister, F. & Stefan, M. (2019). The Risk Elicitation Puzzle Revisited: Across-Methods (In)consistency? Working Papers in Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck. Revised and resubmitted; preprint available at https://osf.io/pj9u2/.

Work-in-Progress (Selection)

	The Economics of Label Credence Goods (joint with Blanco, E., Kerschbamer, R., & Walzl, M.). 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.
	Portfolio Choice: Helping Investors to Pick What They Like (joint with Razen, M. & Stefan, M.) Analyzing data and preparing manuscript.
	Nudging Debtors to Pay their Debts: A Randomized Control Trial (joint with Huber, J. & Kirchler, M.). Analyzing data and preparing manuscript.
	Using Prediction Markets to Forecast Research Evaluations    (Dreber, A., Munafo, M., Penton-Voak, I., ..., & Thompson, J.) Data collection ongoing.
	Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE)    (joint with Pfeiffer, T., Chen, Y., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., ..., & Twardy, C.). Data collection ongoing.
	Using Decision Markets to Predict Replicability of Social Science Experiments (joint with Dreber, A., Chen, Y., Pfeiffer, T., ..., & Johannesson, M.). Preparing data collection.
	Financial Advice as a Credence Good: Experimental Evidence (joint with Huber, J., Kerschbamer, R., & Sutter, M.). Preparing data collection.

Research Visits

02|2020	Copenhagen Business School
09|2019	Stockholm School of Economics
09|2019	University of Gothenburg, Centre for Finance
06|2019	University of Gothenburg, Centre for Finance
01|2019	DARPA SCORE Kick-Off Meeting, Arlington
04|2017	University of Gothenburg, Centre for Finance
04|2017	Stockholm School of Economics

Selected Presentations

	Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB) Research Seminar. Cologne. January 2020.
	Workshop on "Credence Goods, Incentives, and Behavior". Innsbruck. October 2019.
	Internal Workshop at Sileo Kapital AB. Gothenburg. September 2019.
	Berlin Experimental Economics Colloquium and Seminar. Berlin. June 2019.
	Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association. Graz. April 2019.
	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

	"Gleiche Daten, oft andere Schlüsse", Science ORF.at, May 20, 2020.
	"High variability is result of complex data workflows", ScienceDaily, May 20, 2020.
	"Innsbrucker Forscher fordern Risikotabelle für Finanzprodukte", Tiroler Tageszeitung, April 21, 2020.
	"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

	Dr. Otto Seibert Science Advancement Award, October 2019.
	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 (2), Economic Letters (1), European Economic Review (1), Experimental Economics (1), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (1), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance (7), Journal of Economic Psychology (3), Metroeconomica (1) 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 Teaching Assistant, MSc. Level, Gothenburg University ST-2018, ST-2019
	Behavioral Finance in Theory and Practice Seminar, Advances Education for Banking Staff, Raiffeisen State Association WT-2018, ST-2019
	Corporate Decision-Making and Societal Responsibility Seminar, BSc.-Level, University of Innsbruck  ST-2020
	Corporate Financial Management Lecture and Seminar, MSc.-Level, Danube-University Krems  WT-2019
	Empirical Finance Lecture and Seminar, MSc.-/MBA.-Level, Danube-University Krems  WT-2015
	Experimental Finance Seminar, MSc.-Level, University of Innsbruck  WT-2019
	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, WT-2019
	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, WT-2019, ST-2020
	Seminar with Bachelor's Thesis Seminar, BSc.-Level, University of Innsbruck ST-2020
	Supervision of Bachelor and Master Theses ongoing

 

  Appointments and Education

Appointments

05|2019 -	Associate Editor "Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance".
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 - 06|2019	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.

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.