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Michael Kirchler

Michael Kirchler

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Austria
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
37
Citations
8873
World Ranking
2627
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Michael Kirchler is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research primarily spans the fields of economics, econometrics and finance, as well as decision sciences. Within these broad fields, their work includes subfields such as economics and econometrics, general decision sciences, safety research, finance, and accounting.

Their research topics cover several areas including decision-making and behavioral economics, experimental behavioral economics studies, financial markets and investment strategies, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, housing market and economics, market dynamics and volatility, as well as auditing, earnings management, and governance.

Michael Kirchler has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Banking & Finance
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their recent papers include:

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams (2020, Nature)
  • What Drives Risk Perception? A Global Survey with Financial Professionals and Laypeople (2020, Management Science)
  • Nonstandard Errors (2024, The Journal of Finance)
  • Market shocks and professionals' investment behavior - Evidence from the COVID-19 crash (2021, Journal of Banking & Finance)
  • Financial literacy, economic preferences, and adolescents' field behavior (2020, Finance Research Letters)

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, with frequent coauthors including Jürgen Huber, Felix Holzmeister, Utz Weitzel, Anna Dreber, and Michael Razen. These collaborations encompass a range of studies across various disciplines connected to their main research interests.

Best Publications

  • Redefine statistical significance

    Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

  • Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in Economics

    Colin Camerer;Anna Dreber;Eskil Forsell;Teck Ho

  • Thar She Bursts: Reducing Confusion Reduces Bubbles

    Michael Kirchler;Jürgen Huber;Thomas Stöckl

  • Bubble measures in experimental asset markets

    Thomas Stöckl;Jürgen Huber;Michael Kirchler;Michael Kirchler

  • Intuition and cooperation reconsidered

    Gustav Tinghög;David Andersson;Caroline Bonn;Harald Böttiger

  • Rankings and Risk-Taking in the Finance Industry

    Michael Kirchler;Florian Lindner;Utz Weitzel

  • Market design and moral behavior

    Michael Kirchler;Jürgen Huber;Matthias Stefan;Matthias Sutter

  • The economic consequences of a Tobin tax: An experimental analysis

    Michael Hanke;Jürgen Huber;Michael Kirchler;Michael Kirchler;Matthias Sutter

  • Is more information always better?: Experimental financial markets with cumulative information

    Jürgen Huber;Jürgen Huber;Michael Kirchler;Matthias Sutter

  • The effect of fast and slow decisions on risk taking

    Michael Kirchler;David Andersson;Caroline Bonn;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson

  • The impact of instructions and procedure on reducing confusion and bubbles in experimental asset markets

    Jürgen Huber;Michael Kirchler;Michael Kirchler

  • What drives risk perception? A global survey with financial professionals and laypeople

    Felix Holzmeister;Jürgen Huber;Michael Kirchler;Florian Lindner

  • Waiting times between orders and trades in double-auction markets

    Enrico Scalas;Taisei Kaizoji;Michael Kirchler;Jürgen Huber

  • Fat tails and volatility clustering in experimental asset markets

    Michael Kirchler;Jürgen Huber;Jürgen Huber

  • Rank matters–The impact of social competition on portfolio choice

    Oege Dijk;Oege Dijk;Martin Holmen;Martin Holmen;Michael Kirchler;Michael Kirchler

  • Underreaction to fundamental information and asymmetry in mispricing between bullish and bearish markets. An experimental study

    Michael Kirchler

  • The hot hand belief and the gambler’s fallacy in investment decisions under risk

    Jürgen Huber;Michael Kirchler;Thomas Stöckl

  • Bubbles and Information: An Experiment

    Matthias Sutter;Jürgen Huber;Michael Kirchler

  • Bubbles and financial professionals

    Utz Weitzel;Christoph Huber;Juergen Huber;Michael Kirchler

  • Predicting the replicability of social science lab experiments.

    Adam Altmejd;Adam Altmejd;Anna Dreber;Eskil Forsell;Juergen Huber

  • The economic consequences of a Tobin tax - An experimental analysis

    Michael Hanke;J rgen Huber;Michael Kirchler;Matthias Sutter

  • Corporate campaign contributions as a predictor for abnormal stock returns after presidential elections

    Jürgen Huber;Jürgen Huber;Michael Kirchler

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Sutter
Matthias Sutter Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Magnus Johannesson
Magnus Johannesson Stockholm School of Economics
Anna Dreber
Anna Dreber Stockholm School of Economics
Colin F. Camerer
Colin F. Camerer California Institute of Technology
Christoph Huber
Christoph Huber BioNTech (Germany)
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Jean M. Vettel
Jean M. Vettel United States Army Research Laboratory
Jean-Baptiste Poline
Jean-Baptiste Poline Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam
Daniel Västfjäll
Daniel Västfjäll Linköping University

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