Michael Razen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Finance
Head of "FiT - Financial Training" (Financial literacy education program)
+43 (0) 512 507 73012
michael.razen [at] uibk.ac.at
SOWI o.4.09
Upon request
Research
Research interests
Experimental finance and economics
Personal finance
Information economics
Market efficiency
Publications
Working Papers
Menkveld, A. J., Dreber, A., Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Razen, M., Weitzel, U., et al. (2022), Non-standard errors. Working paper. >>>article
Bachler, S., Holzmeister, F., Razen, M., Stefan, M. (2021), The impact of presentation format and choice architecture on portfolio allocations: Experimental evidence. Working paper. >>>article
Razen, M., Kupfer, A. (2021), Can increased tax transparency curb corporate tax avoidance? Working Paper. >>>article
Publications in Refereed Journals
Hackethal, A., Kirchler, M., Laudenbach, C., Razen, M., Weber, A. (2021), On the role of monetary incentives in risk preference elicitation experiments. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. >>>article
Farago, A., Holmen, M., Holzmeister, F., Kirchler, M., Razen, M. (2021), Cognitive skills and economic preferences in the fund industry. Economic Journal. >>>article
Razen, M., Huber, J., Hueber, L., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M. (2020), Financial literacy, economic preferences, and adolescents' field behavior. Finance Research Letters. >>>article
Razen, M., Kirchler, M., Weitzel, U. (2020), Domain-specific risk-taking among finance professionals. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. >>>article
Razen, M., Stefan, M. (2019), Greed: Taking a deadly sin to the lab. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 81: 164-171. >>>article
Razen, M., Huber, J., Kirchler, M. (2017), Cash inflow and trading horizon in asset markets. European Economic Review 92: 359-384. >>>article Software and STATA-Code
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., Wu, H. (2016), Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in economics. Science (First Release). >>>article
Kirchler, M., Bonn, C., Huber, J., Razen, M. (2014), The Inflow-Effect - Trader inflow and bubble formation in asset markets. European Economic Review 77: 1-19. >>>article
Book Chapters
Kaczko, E., Razen, M. (2021): Experiential learning in finance education – Applying experimental finance methodology. To appear in the Handbook of Experimental Finance, Sascha Füllbrunn and Ernan Haruvy (eds). >>>article
Books
Razen, M., Huber, J., Hueber, L., Kirchler, M., Obermeier, M., Stefan, M. (2020): FiT - Ein innovatives Finanztrainingsprogramm für Jugendliche. Innsbruck: Studia Verlag Innsbruck.
Presentations at Academic Conferences
Annual Conference of the Society for Financial Econometrics 2022, Cambridge.
Experimental Finance 2022, Bonn.
Experimental Finance 2021, Innsbruck.
Experimental Finance 2019, Kopenhagen.
Frühjahrstreffen der Forschungsplattform "Organizations and Society" 2018, Innsbruck.
Experimental Finance 2018, Heidelberg.
Finance Research Day 2017, Graz.
Experimental Finance 2017, Nice.
ESA European Meeting 2015, Heidelberg.
Austrian Working Group on Banking and Finance 2014, Vienna.
eeecon Workshop 2014, Innsbruck.
Experimental Finance 2014, Zurich.
Media
Public Lecture on Financial Literacy. Published on Radio Freirad, KulturTon. >>>link
Interview on the Education Program FiT - Financial Training. Published on Radio Freirad. >>>link
Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in economics. Published on ORF.at. >>>link
Ad-hoc Referee
European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organziation, Experimental Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Energies, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Emerging Markets Review, German Economic Review
Selected Grants, Prices, and Awards
2018
Hypo Tirol Bank Dissertationspreis
2018
CFA Prize Austria
2017
Hypo Research Grant
2013
Doctoral Fellowship, University of Innsbruck
Teaching
Applied Empirical Finance (MSc, Lecture and Seminar)
Market Efficiency (MSc, Lecture and Seminar)
Experimental Finance (MSc, Lecture and Seminar)
The Economics of Information, Information Technologies and Human Behaviour (MSc, Lecture with Seminar)
International Finance (Diploma, Lecture and Seminar)
Introduction to Finance (BSc, Lecture with Seminar)
Introduction to Business and Management (BSc, Seminar)
Appointments and Education
Guest Researcher
Feb - Mar 2018
Guest researcher, University of Gothenburg & Stockholm School of Economics
Education
2013 - 2017
PhD in Economics, University of Innsbruck
2011 - 2012
MSc in Finance and Economics, London School of Economics
2010
Summer School, University of New Orleans
2008 - 2011
BSc in Business and Economics, University of Innsbruck