Stefan Palan

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  • New paper on retail investors’ disposition effect and order choices

    Together with my co-authors Rudy De Winne and Nhung Luong (both UCLouvain), we examined how retail investors’ disposition effect — the well-documented tendency to…

    Cover of the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.
  • Instagram series on peer review and publishing

    The University of Graz’ “7. Fakultät” has recently asked me to participate in a series of Instagram posts explaining peer review, publishing, and how…

  • Talk about the (non-)participation in the stock market

    Austrian retail stock market participation (i.e., the proportion of the population that owns stocks or equity funds), while growing substantially recently, is still relatively…

  • White house report mentions research

    As I was recently made aware, a 2024 report by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy cites my paper “Nobel and…

  • Honorary membership

    In its 2025 general assembly, the Society for Experimental Finance named me its Honorary Member. I am very grateful of this recognition – an…

  • Grant for studying the role of gender and sexuality in financial decision-making

    My joint grant application with Berivan Gürel (University of Graz) titled “Gender and Sex Dynamics in Financial Behavior – Experimental Evidence” has received nearly…

  • New paper on insider trading regulation

    Along with my co-authors and , we examined traders’ regulation preferences conditional on their prospects of becoming informed. Our findings reveal that traders voted…

  • fit2invest financial education game online

    Together with Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark AG, I spent the past year developing the financial education game fit2invest. Publicly available under fit2invest.at, the German-language game takes…

  • New video about non-standard errors

    The team behind a recent Journal of Finance paper has posted a video explaining the concept of non-standard errors. This is a vital piece…

  • Paper on sustainable investments

    Together with researchers from Vienna, Stavanger and Brussels, I recently published a paper titled “Can information provision and preference elicitation promote ESG investments? Evidence…