Matthias Weber

Matthias Weber is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of St. Gallen. Before joining the University, Professor Weber was Principal Economist at the Bank of Lithuania in the central bank's research center. He has received several grants and awards during his academic career.

Expertise

Professor Weber is analyzing financial and economic decision-making, mainly from an experimental perspective. For instance, he studies how investor experience influences the formation of asset price bubbles. Experimental data shows that bubbles do not disappear with investor experience but rather speed up. This is in line with a new theoretical model in which more experienced investors anticipate bubbles faster and therefore drive prices up faster when a bubble forms. He also investigates how the wellknown "prospect theory" should be applied when financial gains and losses materialize at different points in time, as is often the case in applications in finance and economics.