Christoph Huber

Welcome!

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Markets and Strategy at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) doing research in Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Finance. Applying the tools of experimental economics, I work on topics relating to financial markets, such as issues regarding market efficiency and bubbles, decision-making under uncertainty, and (un)ethical behavior.

I am also Research Associate at the Economic Science Laboratory of the University of Arizona and Code & Data Associate Editor for Management Science.

News

[2023-05]	The #ManyDesigns metastudy has just been published in PNAS: Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs! With collaborators from 70+ institutions in 18 different countries we find a small adverse effect of competition on moral behavior and identify substantial 'design heterogeneity'.
[2022-10]	Our paper Heterogeneity of Beliefs and Trading Behavior: A Reexamination (with Sascha Füllbrunn, Catherine Eckel, and Utz Weitzel) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis!
[2022-08]	Experimental Finance is on the rise! Our new survey of experiments in finance (Experiments in finance: A survey of historical trends, with Michael Kirchler, forthcoming in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance) shows that the number of papers using experiments in top finance journals – as well as the number of experimental finance studies in top economics journals – has been increasing substantially over the last two decades.
[2022-06]	Our preprint Cooperation among an anonymous group protected Bitcoin during failures of decentralization (with A. Blackburn, Y. Eliaz, M.S. Shamim, D. Weisz, G. Seshadri, K. Kim, S. Hang, E. Lieberman Aiden) is now out on arXiv – it also featured in the New York Times, Coindesk, and ORF.

Research

Publications

Journal Articles

Huber, C., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Weitzel, U., ..., Holzmeister, F. (2023) Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(23).

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Füllbrunn, S., Huber, C., Eckel, C., Weitzel, U. Heterogeneity of Beliefs and Trading Behavior: A Reexamination. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Forthcoming.

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Huber, C., Kirchler, M. (2023) Experiments in Finance: A Survey of Historical Trends. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 37, 100737.

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Huber, C., Huber, J., Kirchler, M. (2022) Volatility shocks and investment behavior. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 194, pp. 56-70.

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Huber, C., Huber, J., Kirchler, M. (2021) Market shocks and professionals' investment behavior — Evidence from the COVID-19 crash. Journal of Banking & Finance, 133, 106247.

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Huber, C., Huber, J. (2020) Bad bankers no more? Truth-telling and (dis)honesty in the finance industry. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 180, pp. 472-493.

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Weitzel, U., Huber, C., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Lindner, F., Rose, J. (2020) Bubbles and financial professionals. The Review of Financial Studies, 33(6), pp. 2659–2696.

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Huber, C., Bindra, P.C., Kleinlercher, D. (2019) Design-features of bubble-prone experimental asset markets with a constant FV. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 5(2), pp. 197-209.

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Huber, C., Huber, J., Hueber, L. (2019) The effect of experts' and laypeople's forecasts on others' stock market forecasts. Journal of Banking & Finance, 109, 105662.

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Huber, C. (2019). oTree: The bubble game. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 22, pp. 3-6.

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Huber, C., Huber, J. (2019). Scale matters: Risk perception, return expectations, and investment propensity under different scalings. Experimental Economics, 22(1), pp. 76-100.

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Book Chapters

Füllbrunn, S., Huber, C., König-Kersting, C. (2022) Experimental Finance and Financial Professionals. In Füllbrunn S. & Haruvy, E. (Eds.), Handbook of Experimental Finance (pp. 64–72). Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Holzmeister, F., Huber, C., Palan, S. (2022) A Critical Perspective on the Conceptualization of Risk in Behavioral and Experimental Finance In Füllbrunn S. & Haruvy, E. (Eds.), Handbook of Experimental Finance (pp. 408–413). Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Working Papers

Cooperation among an anonymous group protected Bitcoin during failures of decentralization (with A. Blackburn, Y. Eliaz, M.S. Shamim, D. Weisz, G. Seshadri, K. Kim, S. Hang, E. Lieberman Aiden)

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Experimenting with Financial Professionals (with C. König-Kersting)

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On Social Norms and Observability in (Dis)honest Behavior (with A. Nieper, C. Litsios, T. Promann)

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Individual Attitudes and Market Dynamics Towards Imprecision. (with J. Rose)

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Selected Work-in-Progress

'Large Gains, Small Losses? (Mis)representing Returns in Financial Advice'
(with J. Rose)
'Competitiveness and Speculative Behavior'
'Mining Centralization in Cryptocurrency Markets: A Laboratory Experiment'
(with A. Usvitskiy, A. Belianin, and A. Didenko)
'Management Science Reproducibility Project'
(with M. Fišar, B. Greiner, E. Katok, and A. Ozkes)

Selected Presentations

05/2023 ▪ Young Economists' Meeting 2023 ▪ Brno, Czech Republic
04/2023 ▪ Theory-Experimental Seminar, University of Alicante ▪ Alicante, Spain
09/2022 ▪ 15th Australia and New Zealand Workshop on Experimental Economics (ANZWEE) ▪ Sydney, Australia
08/2022 ▪ ESA 2022 European Meeting ▪ Bologna, Italy
06/2022 ▪ 4th Behavioral Macroeconomics Workshop, Bamberg ▪ Online
06/2022 ▪ Experimental Finance 2022 ▪ Bonn, Germany
05/2022 ▪ Young Economists' Meeting 2022 ▪ Brno, Czech Republic
01/2022 ▪ WU IMS Brownbag Seminar ▪ Online
07/2021 ▪ ESA 2021 Global Online Around-the-Clock Meeting ▪ Online
06/2021 ▪ Experimental Finance 2021 ▪ Online
03/2021 ▪ WEAI Virtual International Conference ▪ Online
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09/2020 ▪ ESA 2020 Global Online Around-the-Clock Meeting ▪ Online

02/2020 ▪ Experimental Finance 2020 North American Regional Conference ▪ Salt Lake City, UT, USA

10/2019 ▪ 3rd Annual Workshop, SFB F63 Credence Goods, Incentives and Behavior ▪ Innsbruck, Austria

09/2019 ▪ ESA 2019 European Meeting ▪ Dijon, France

06/2019 ▪ JDMx meeting 2019 ▪ Trento, Italy

06/2019 ▪ Experimental Finance 2019 ▪ Copenhagen, Denmark

06/2019 ▪ Maastricht Behavioral Economic Policy Symposium (M-BEPS) 2019 ▪ Maastricht, the Nethelands

05/2019 ▪ International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS) ▪ Utrecht, the Nethelands

04/2019 ▪ Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) ▪ Graz, Austria

11/2018 ▪ Austrian Working Group on Banking and Finance ▪ Salzburg, Austria

11/2018 ▪ 2nd Annual Workshop, SFB F63 Credence Goods, Incentives and Behavior ▪ Innsbruck, Austria

09/2018 ▪ Austrian Experimental Economics Workshop 2018 ▪ Innsbruck, Austria

09/2018 ▪ Research in Behavioral Finance Conference ▪ Amsterdam, the Netherlands

08/2018 ▪ EEA-ESEM 2018, Annual Congress of the European Economic Association ▪ Cologne, Germany

06/2018 ▪ ESA 2018 World Meeting ▪ Berlin, Germany

06/2018 ▪ eeecon Empirical and Experimental Economics Workshop, University of Innsbruck ▪ Innsbruck, Austria

06/2018 ▪ Behavioural Finance Working Group Conference, Queen Mary University of London ▪ London, UK

12/2017 ▪ Research Seminar, Chapman University ▪ Orange, CA, USA

10/2017 ▪ PhD Seminar, Johannes-Kepler-University Linz ▪ Linz, Austria

09/2017 ▪ ESA 2017 European Meeting ▪ Vienna, Austria

Awards, Grants & Research Funding:

WU Projects Grant, WU Anniversary Fund, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), December 2022
Research Grant, Netzwerk Banking, Accounting, Auditing, Finance & IT (BAFIT), University of Innsbruck, March 2021
Research Grant, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), University of Innsbruck, July 2020
Research Grant, Netzwerk Banking, Accounting, Auditing, Finance & IT (BAFIT), University of Innsbruck, January 2020
Reinhard Selten-Stipend Grant, German Association for Experimental Economics Research (GfeW), September 2019
Recognition Award of the Jury of the Best Student Paper Award 2019, University of Innsbruck, September 2019
Research Grant, Bank Austria Stiftung der SoWi‐Fakultäten, University of Innsbruck, March 2018
Research Grant, Aktion D. Swarovski KG 2017, University of Innsbruck, November 2017 (joint with Julia Rose)
Support Grant (Förderungsstipendium) for experimental research, University of Innsbruck, November 2017
PhD Grant (Doktoratsstipendium), Netzwerk Banking, Auditing, Finance & IT, University of Innsbruck, September 2016
Support Grant (Förderungsstipendium) for experimental research, University of Innsbruck, June 2016
Dean's List 2016, School of Management, University of Innsbruck
1^st out of 70 students in ranking for the international study program, FH Kufstein Tirol, 2013
Grant of Achievment (Leistungsstipendium), FH Kufstein Tirol / Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, 2014
Grant of Achievment (Leistungsstipendium), FH Kufstein Tirol / Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, 2012

Refereeing:

Behavior Research Methods, European Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, Management Science, Southern Economic Journal
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