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Jose Apesteguia

Jose Apesteguia

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Social & Behavioural Sciences

Jose Apesteguia received his PhD in Economics from the Public University of Navarra in 2001. Since then he has been at the University of Bonn as a post-doc and at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, first as a "Ramón y Cajal" fellow and then as an ICREA Research Professor.


Research interests

In my research I study individual decision-making with an emphasis on its psychological foundations. I use theoretical tools as well as adopt an empirical approach to try to better understand individual decision-making, and to improve the predictive power of the decision-making models in economic environments.

Selected publications

Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel A. 2021, ‘SEPARATING PREDICTED RANDOMNESS FROM RESIDUAL BEHAVIOR’, Journal Of The European Economic Association, 19, 2, 1041 – 1076.


Selected research activities

-Seminar invitations: Durham University Business School, May 2021; Princeton University, April 2021; Ohio State University, April 2021; Michigan State University, February 2021.

-PhDs: Katharina Janezic (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Daniele Caliari (Queen Mary University of London).

-Scientific Committee: “Bounded Rationality in Choice” Annual Meetings, Spanish Economic Association Meeting, European Economic Association Meeting.

-Management:  Director of the PhD in Economics, Finance and Management, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Academic Committee, Barcelona School of Economics.

-Editorial: Journal of the European Economic Association (Associate Editor), Journal of Mathematical Economics (Associate Editor).

-Teaching: Behavioral Decision Theory, PhD in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Topics in Microeconomics, BSc in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Bojos per l’economia!, CREi-Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera.

ICREA Memoir 2021