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Rey Biel, Pedro

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at Esade
Contracted Doctoral Professor URL
Investigador, ESADEgov - Center for Public Governance
Investigador, GLIGP Investigación en Liderazgo e Innov. en Gest. Pública

Education
  • Doctor of Philosophy. University of London
  • Licenciado en Economía.

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/

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Tel: +34 932 806 162
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Fax: +34 932 048 105