Dr. Helena Maria 
FORNWAGNER

ABOUT ME

I am a behavioral and experimental economist and finished my doctoral studies in Economics in 2017 at the University of Innsbruck. I hold a Master's degree in Applied Economics and a Bachelor's degree in Management and Economics from the same university.

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After working as a Post-Doc (Assistant-Professor) at the University of Innsbruck for almost four years, I started in autumn 2020 to work on a similar position at the University of Regensburg (Chair of Professor Lea Cassar). 

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Do you want to know more about me?
Please find my detailed CV here. 

Publications

2020

Balafoutas, L., Czermak, S., Eulerich, M., Fornwagner, H. Incentives for dishonesty: An experimental study with internal auditors. Economic Inquiry. Volume 58 (2), 764-779

2019

Fornwagner, H. Incentives to lose revisited: The NHL and its tournament incentives. Journal of Economic Psychology. Volume 75, Part B. 102088

2018

Balafoutas, L., Fornwagner, H., Sutter M. Closing the gender gap in competitiveness through priming. Nature Communications. Volume 9, Article number: 4359.

2017

Balafoutas, L. & Fornwagner, H. The limits of guilt. Journal of the Economic Science Association. Volume 3 (2), 137-148.

Working papers

2021

Balafoutas, L., Fornwagner, H., Grosskopf, B. Predictably competitive: What faces can tell us about competitive behavior (2021). 

2020

Fornwagner, H., Pompeo, M., Serdarevic, N. Him or her? Choosing competition on behalf of someone else (June 4, 2020). 

Fornwagner, H. & Hauser, O. Climate action for (my) children. University of Innsbruck Working Papers in Economics and Statistics. 2020-23.

Balafoutas, L., Fornwagner, H., Kerschbamer, R., Sutter, M., Tverdostup, M. Diagnostic Uncertainty and Insurance in Credence Goods Markets. University of Innsbruck Working Papers in Economics and Statistics. 2020-21.

My main research areas

Besides other topics, these are the areas I am most interested in.

Selected media coverage

Selection of newspaper articles, blog posts, interviews, etc.

More contributions are summarised in my CV.

„Dream big with your feet on the ground!“