Tobin Hanspal

Assistant Professor of Finance

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business 


Affiliated Faculty 

Vienna Graduate School of Finance (VGSF) 


Research Affiliate 

Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE 

Contact

tobin.hanspal@wu.ac.at

+43 1 313 36 6371 

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics 

Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance

Welthandelsplatz 1

A-1020 Vienna

Austria


Working Papers:

Local Returns and Beliefs about the Stock Market - with Clemens Wagner. Revise and Resubmit Journal of Financial Economics
Selected presentations:  SGF 2024, EFA 2023, DGF 2023
SIX Best Paper Award, Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research (SGF Conference), 2024 

Do Gamblers Invest in Lottery Stocks? - with Emily Kormanyos and Andreas Hackethal. Reject and Resubmit Management Science 

Educating Investors about Dividends - with Andreas Hackethal, Samuel M. Hartzmark, and Konstantin Bräuer.

Personal Recommendations and Portfolio Quality - with Olga Balakina, Claes Bäckman, Andreas Hackethal, and Dominique M. Lammer.
Selected presentations:  CEPR Household Finance 2023, SGF 2022, CEPR Advanced Forum in Financial Economics, JEF Seminar

Beliefs and the Disposition Effect - with Steffen Andersen, Jimmy Martinez-Correa, and Kasper Meisner Nielsen

Do Financial Misconduct Experiences Spur White-Collar Crime?  - with Steffen Andersen and Kasper Meisner Nielsen
Selected presentations:  EFA 2020, Helsinki Finance 2019


Publications:

Participation and Losses in Multi-Level Marketing: Evidence from an FTC Settlement - with Claes Bäckman. Financial Planning Review (2022). [SSRN]

Political Corruption, Trust, and Household Stock Market Participation  - with Di Bu and Yin Liao. Journal of Banking and Finance (2022). [SSRN]

Consuming Dividends - with Konstantin Bräuer and Andreas Hackethal. Review of Financial Studies (2022).  [SSRN] 

The Characteristics and Portfolio Behavior of Bitcoin Investors: Evidence from Indirect Cryptocurrency Investments - with Dominique M. Lammer, Andreas Hackethal, and Kevin Rink. Review of Finance (2021). [SSRN]

Cultivating Self-Control in FinTech: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Online Consumer Borrowing  - with Di Bu, Yin Liao, and Yong Liu. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2021). [SSRN]

Exposure to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash and its Effect on Household Expectations - with Annika Weber and Johannes Wohlfart. Review of Economics and Statistics (2021).   
[Online appendix and survey instructions] [SSRN]

Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Power of Personal Experiences in Risk Taking - with Steffen Andersen and Kasper Meisner NielsenJournal of Financial Economics (2019). [SSRN]



Resting Papers...

Does Financial Technology Affect Household Savings Behavior? - with Gregor Becker. Revise and Resubmit Journal of Banking and Finance

Risk Taking, Preferences, and Beliefs: Evidence from Wuhan - with Di Bu, Yin Liao, and Yong Liu
[Presentation video] [CEPR Covid Economics Issue 5]
Selected presentations: FMA 2021, SFS Cavalcade 2021,  Virtual Finance and Economics Conference, Finance in the Cloud III, Aarhus, SABE

The Effect of Personal Financing Disruptions on Entrepreneurship
Selected presentations: AFA 2018, SGF 2017, CEPR Entrepreneurship 2016, EEA 2016