معرفی
Felix Holzmeister is a Professor at the University of Innsbruck’s Department of Economics, Austria, whose research agenda spans experimental and behavioral finance, meta-science, risk perception, and the reproducibility of empirical research. His work is characterised by large-scale collaborative projects—often involving dozens of co-authors—that combine laboratory experiments, field interventions, and meta-analytical methods to understand how individuals, particularly finance professionals, form expectations, perceive risk, and make decisions under uncertainty.
Research Interests:
- Experimental and behavioural finance, with special attention to replicability of asset-market findings
- Risk preferences and risk perception among finance professionals and retail investors
- Meta-science topics such as non-standard errors, reviewer reliability, and computational reproducibility
- Policy-oriented behavioural interventions (nudging) in household finance and debt collection
Across more than fifteen recent papers, Holzmeister’s research exhibits a clear focus on methodological rigour and transparency. His 2024 Journal of Finance article on non-standard errors—co-authored with over 150 colleagues—has already garnered thousands of downloads and citations, illustrating the broad interest in improving statistical inference in finance. A parallel strand of work uses preregistered experiments to test the robustness of classic asset-market findings, while additional studies explore how cognitive skills and personality traits shape fund-manager performance and how choice architecture influences portfolio allocation.
Scientific Impact & Recognition:
- Top-3 000 SSRN author by total downloads (>24 000)
- Top-10 500 SSRN author by total citations (>100)
- Lead or co-author on large multi-institutional studies featured in top finance journals
Collaboration & Funding:
Holzmeister routinely leads interdisciplinary teams involving institutions such as the Stockholm School of Economics, VU Amsterdam, HEC Paris, the University of Gothenburg, and Copenhagen Business School. Funding acknowledgements in his papers imply support from national science foundations and European research councils, although specific grant numbers are not detailed in the present text.
Laboratory & Research Environment:
He conducts experiments within the University of Innsbruck’s experimental-economics laboratory infrastructure and is affiliated with cross-university consortia such as the “Non-Standard Errors Project” and the “Researcher Variation in Economics” consortium, which bring together dozens of scholars to tackle methodological challenges in economics and finance.
