Tungodden Appointed ERC Ambassador
Professor Bertil Tungodden has been selected as Norway’s representative in the new ERC Ambassador Network.
Professor Bertil Tungodden
- Bertil.Tungodden@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 92 61
- Department
- Economics
- Centre
- FAIR
- Office
- E222
- Expertise
- Behavioural economics Development Economics Experimental Economics Political Philosophy Social choice theory
BIOGRAPHY
Bertil Tungodden is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at NHH Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway. He is Scientific Director of the Centre of Excellence, FAIR- Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality, and co-director of the research group The Choice Lab. He is an Einstein Visiting Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and affiliated researcher at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway.
His research interests are experimental and behavioral economics, development economics, distributive justice and social choice theory. Tungodden has published extensively in leading international academic journals in economics and philosophy, including Science, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Philosophy. He is presently an associate editor in Journal of Political Economy and Social Choice and Welfare, and has previously held editorial positions in Management Science, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Economics and Philosophy. In 2018, Tungodden received the prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant, which awards exceptional researchers 2.5 million euro to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects in their fields. He is an elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, and has received numerous awards for excellence in research from the Research Council of Norway and various other awards for excellence in teaching.
Bertil lives in Bergen, Norway with his wife Heidi, and together they keep up with their adventurous children living around the world.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Tungodden, Bertil | Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians? | Journal of Political Economy; 2020 |
| Cappelen, Alexander Wright; List, John; Samek, Anya; Tungodden, Bertil | The effect of early-childhood education on social preferences | Journal of Political Economy (24 pages); 2019 |
| Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Konow, James; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil | Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk-Taking and Fairness | The American Economic Review Volume 103 (4); page 1398 - 1413; 2013 |
| Cappelen, Alexander W.; Hole, Astri Drange; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil | The pluralism of fairness ideals: An experimental approach | The American Economic Review Volume 97 (3); page 818 - 827; 2007 |
TEACHING AREASEconomics and Psychology |
Dissemination
Arrow Lecture at SSCW 2024
Bertil Tungodden gave the Arrow Lecture at the 17th meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare. The SSCW 2024 took place in Paris from July 3 to 6. The other keynote speakers included Elizabeth Maggie Penn and Thomas Piketty.
FAIR paper published in American Economic Review
A new NHH study, "Second-Best Fairness: The Trade-off between False Positives and False Negatives", is published in the September issue of American Economic Review.
A star player in his academic field
Professor Bertil Tungodden at the Department of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) turns 60 on Thursday 4 May. He is a giant in international research, deeply committed to his subject, with a unique ability to infect others with his enthusiasm.
Tungodden in Nature Human Behaviour
Five years after the launch of Nature Human Behaviour, twenty-two leading experts in some of the core disciplines within the journal’s scope share their views on pressing open questions and new directions in their disciplines.
Solidarity and predictability are essential in times of crisis
New guarantees are needed to enable us to carry the financial costs of the pandemic together, write Bertil Tungodden and Alexander W Cappelen.
Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study
New working paper by Thomas Buser (University of Amsterdam), Alexander Cappelen, Uri Gneezy (Rady School of Management, UCSD), Moshe Hoffman (MIT and Harvard) and Bertil Tungodden, titled "Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study".
New FAIR Projects funded by the Research Council of Norway
FAIR is involved in three projects that have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.
The Development of Social Comparisons and Sharing Behavior Across 12 Countries
New accepted paper in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, titled "The Development of Social Comparisons and Sharing Behavior Across 12 Countries". Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden are among the co-authors.
NHH presents findings of the world’s largest experimental study
What causes inequality? Do people have the same understanding of economic fairness? FAIR at NHH is presenting groundbreaking research at the Gallup World Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on 5 November.
A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior
New working paper by Alexander W. Cappelen, Johanna Mollerstrom, Bjørn-Atle Reme and Bertil Tungodden, titled "A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior".
The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Social Preferences
A new accepted paper by Alexander Cappelen, John List, Anya Samek and Bertil Tungodden in the Journal of Political Economy, titled "The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Social Preferences"