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Overview

Thorsten Hens is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research work spans several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Finance, General Decision Sciences, Accounting, and Strategy and Management.

The research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Economic theories and models
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Economic Theory and Policy

Thorsten Hens has authored and co-authored numerous papers. Some recent publications include:

  • "Universal time preference," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Behavioral equilibrium and evolutionary dynamics in asset markets," 2020, Journal of Mathematical Economics
  • "An evolutionary finance model with short selling and endogenous asset supply," 2020, Economic Theory
  • "Experimental Research on Retirement Decision-Making: Evidence from Replications," 2023, Journal of Banking & Finance
  • "Behavioural heterogeneity in the capital asset pricing model with an application to the low-beta anomaly," 2020, Applied Economics Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Thorsten Hens are:

  • Marc Oliver Rieger
  • Mei Wang
  • Igor V. Evstigneev
  • Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé
  • Valeriya Potapova

The main venues where their work has been published include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • World Scientific series in finance
  • Pressacademia
  • Economic Theory
  • Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Among book publications, Thorsten Hens has contributed to works published by World Scientific and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis:

  • "Cultural Finance," 2020, World Scientific
  • "Cultural Finance: A World Map of Risk, Time and Money," 2020, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Best Publications

  • How time preferences differ: Evidence from 53 countries

    Mei Wang;Marc Oliver Rieger;Thorsten Hens

  • Risk Preferences Around the World

    Marc Oliver Rieger;Mei Wang;Thorsten Hens

  • The Impact of Culture on Loss Aversion

    Mei Wang;Marc Oliver Rieger;Thorsten Hens

  • Does Prospect Theory Explain the Disposition Effect

    Thorsten Hens;Martin Vlcek

  • Handbook of Financial Markets: Dynamics and Evolution

    Klaus Schenk-Hoppe;Thorsten Hens;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

  • Evolutionary stable stock markets

    Igor V. Evstigneev;Thorsten Hens;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

  • Behavioural finance for private banking

    Thorsten Hens;Kremena Bachmann

  • Evolutionary stability of portfolio rules in incomplete markets

    Thorsten Hens;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

  • Market Selection and Survival of Investment Strategies

    Rabah Amir;Igor V. Evstigneev;Thorsten Hens;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

  • Improving Investment Decisions with Simulated Experience

    Meike A. S. Bradbury;Thorsten Hens;Stefan Zeisberger

  • Financial Economics: A Concise Introduction to Classical and Behavioral Finance

    Thorsten Hens;Marc Oliver Rieger

  • Making prospect theory fit for finance

    Enrico De Giorgi;Enrico De Giorgi;Thorsten Hens;Thorsten Hens

  • Market selection of financial trading strategies: Global stability

    Igor V. Evstigneev;Thorsten Hens;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

  • Prospect theory around the world

    Marc Oliver Rieger;Mei Wang;Thorsten Hens

  • Three Solutions to the Pricing Kernel Puzzle

    Thorsten Hens;Christian Reichlin

  • The transfer paradox and sunspot equilibria

    Thorsten Hens;Thorsten Hens;Thorsten Hens;Beate Pilgrim

  • Financial innovation, communication and the theory of the firm

    Marc Oliver Bettzüge;Marc Oliver Bettzüge;Thorsten Hens

  • Globally evolutionarily stable portfolio rules

    Igor V. Evstigneev;Thorsten Hens;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

  • Estimating cumulative prospect theory parameters from an international survey

    Marc Oliver Rieger;Mei Wang;Thorsten Hens

  • Market Selection and Survival of Investment Strategies

    Rabah Amir;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé;Igor V. Evstigneev;Thorsten Hens;Thorsten Hens;Thorsten Hens

  • Evolutionary Stable Stock Markets

    Igor V. Evstigneev;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé;Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé;Thorsten Hens;Thorsten Hens;Thorsten Hens

  • Two Paradigms and Nobel Prizes in Economics: A Contradiction or Coexistence?

    Enrico G. De Giorgi;Thorsten Hens;Thorsten Hens;Thorsten Hens;Haim Levy;Haim Levy

Frequent Co-Authors

Haim Levy
Haim Levy Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Urs Fischbacher
Urs Fischbacher University of Konstanz
William T. Ziemba
William T. Ziemba University of British Columbia
Rainer Weber
Rainer Weber University of Zurich
Alan Kirman
Alan Kirman School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

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