Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at
Esade
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Investigador, ESADEgov - Center for Public Governance
Investigador, GLIGP Investigación en Liderazgo e Innov. en Gest. Pública
Biography
Pedro Rey Biel is Associate Professor of Behavioral Economics at ESADE, Ramon Llull
University Barcelona, Spain. He obtained his Master Degree in Economics and Finance
from CEMFI Bank of Spain and a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London United
Kingdom. Before joining ESADE in April 2018, he was a tenured faculty member at Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona. Since 2008 he has held a visiting position at the Rady School
of Management at University of California San Diego UCSD, where he has taught MBA
courses on Managerial Economics and on Strategy. Pedro has also been the lead behavioral
scientist behind All of Us, the United States Precision Medicine Initiative started
by President Obama.Pedro's research combines theoretical and empirical methodologies,
as well as laboratory and field experiments to understand economic decision making
and how it is affected by the design of proper incentive schemes which take into account
the complex array of behavioral traits behind human motivation. He has published articles
in leading academic journals in economics such as The Journal of European economic
Association, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Economic Journal, and The Journal
of Public Economics and in the leading field journals such as Games and Economic Behavior,
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Experimental Economics. His work
has also appeared regularly in popular outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, or
The Financial Times. He is also one of the editors of the most popular blog about
Economics in Spain www.nadaesgratis.es. He currently serves on the Editorial Board
of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, NPJ Digital Medicine Nature
and Journal of Socio-Economics. Pedro also collaborates with public and private institutions
in the applications of behavioral economics to optimal organizational design and has
conducted large RCTs for several leading companies.Pedro's personal webpage can be
found here: http://www.pedroreybiel.com Pedro's complete CV is here: http://pedroreybiel.com/cv/
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 5560
Fax: +34 932 048 105