Behavioural economics

By using experiments as research methods, behavioural economists study what impacts people’s ethical and financial decisions based on the recognition that we are not only motivated by a limited self-interest and that we are not completely rational.

Solidarity and predictability are essential in times of crisis

Opinion Piece 27 March 2020 Ethics and Social Responsibility Behavioural economics

New guarantees are needed to enable us to carry the financial costs of the pandemic together, write Bertil Tungodden and Alexander W Cappelen.

Decision making on behalf of others

PhD Defense 17 September 2019 Behavioural economics Economics

On Monday 30 September 2019 Xiaogeng Xu will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.

The economics of inequality

PhD Defense 10 September 2019 Behavioural economics Economics

On Tuesday 24. September 2019 Ranveig Falch will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.

Yes, shame and symbolic politics may in fact work

19 August 2019 Environmental Economics Behavioural economics

Gunnar S. Eskeland: Smoking all but disappeared, surprisingly quick and easy, in an interaction between politics and altered norms. That may work in climate politics as well.

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Researchers

Kjetil Bjorvatn

Professor, Department of Economics
Alexander Wright Cappelen

Professor, Department of Economics
Daniel Eduardo Carvajal Zuniga

PhD Candidate, Department of Economics
Thomas de Haan

Assistant professor, Department of Economics
Trond M. Døskeland

Professor, Department of Business and Management Science
Mathias Philip Ekström

Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Aysil Emirmahmutoglu

Assistant Professor, Department of Business and Management Science
Ranveig Falch

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics
Catalina Franco

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics
Henning Hermes

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Siri D Isaksson

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Yuanhao Li

Associate Professor II, Department of Economics
Osama Moeed Nawab

PhD Candidate, Department of Economics
Hallgeir Sjåstad

Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and Management
Vincent Somville

Assistant professor, Department of Economics
Erik Øiolf Sørensen

Professor, Department of Economics
Pablo Ignacio Soto Mota

PhD Candidate, Department of Economics
Helge Thorbjørnsen

Professor, Department of Strategy and Management
Bertil Tungodden

Professor, Department of Economics
Justin Valasek

Tenure-Track Associate Professor, Department of Economics