Appointment: Matthias Weber

Prof. Matthias Weber completed his studies in mathematics at the University of Freiburg. This was followed by a master's degree in economics at the Tinbergen Institute. In 2015, he received his doctorate in economics from the University of Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute. After his PhD, he conducted research at the Central Bank of Lithuania and Vilnius University. Since 2018 he was Assistant Professor at the School of Finance at HSG and since 2022 he is Faculty Member of the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI). From 2019 to 2021, Matthias Weber was administrative program director of the PhD program in Finance at the School of Finance of the University of St.Gallen. He was visiting researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of California, Irvine, and the European University Institute. 

Research in the field of behavioral economics and behavioral finance

Prof. Matthias Weber conducts research in the fields of behavioral economics and behavioral finance. He primarily conducts studies on financial decision-making processes and human behavior in financial markets. Part of his research takes place at the intersection of behavioral economics and finance with public finance, financial market regulation, macroeconomics and household finance. Most of his studies are methodologically based primarily on controlled economic experimentation. In some of his work, he also develops and analyzes behavioral economic theories and analyzes observational data using statistical methods and machine learning.