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Home | People | Luca Henkel
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Luca Henkel

Research Fellow
University
Erasmus University Rotterdam
E-mail
henkel@ese.eur.nl
Research field
Finance
Interests
Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Finance, Experimental Economics
Website
Link to personal website

Biography

Luca Henkel is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Finance at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He received a Ph.D. in Economics in 2023 from the University of Bonn.

Luca specialises in behavioural economics and household finance. He uses experiments to study how individuals make financial and prosocial decisions, as well as how AI-based automation impacts workers and firms.

Key publications

List of publications

Henkel, L. and Pugnaghi-Zimpelmann, C. (2026). Proud to Not Own Stocks: How Identity Shapes Financial Decisions Review of Financial Studies.

Henkel, L. (2024). Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Perceived Ambiguity and Likelihood Insensitivity Games and Economic Behavior, 145(May):312--338.